/** @var int Callback triggered by rollback */
const TRIGGER_ROLLBACK = 3;
+ /** @var string Transaction is requested by regular caller outside of the DB layer */
+ const TRANSACTION_EXPLICIT = '';
+ /** @var string Transaction is requested interally via DBO_TRX/startAtomic() */
+ const TRANSACTION_INTERNAL = 'implicit';
+
/** @var string Transaction operation comes from service managing all DBs */
const FLUSHING_ALL_PEERS = 'flush';
/** @var string Transaction operation comes from the database class internally */
* automatically because of the DBO_TRX flag.
*
* @param string $fname
+ * @param string $mode A situationally valid IDatabase::TRANSACTION_* constant [optional]
* @throws DBError
*/
- public function begin( $fname = __METHOD__ );
+ public function begin( $fname = __METHOD__, $mode = self::TRANSACTION_EXPLICIT );
/**
* Commits a transaction previously started using begin().