transaction blocks, committing or rolling back changes made and
controlling autocommit behaviour.
</para>
+ <note>
+ In contrast to &commonsql;, &clsql;, by default, starts in
+ transaction AUTOCOMMIT mode (see <link
+ linkend="set-autocommit"><function>set-autocommit</function></link>).
+ To begin a transaction in autocommit mode, <link
+ linkend="start-transaction"><function>start-transaction</function></link>
+ has to be called explicitly.
+ </note>
</partintro>
<refentry id="start-transaction">