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Re: start of transaction (was: Re: [PERFORM] Help with count(*))

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>, Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>, Will LaShell <will@lashell.net>, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2003-11-18T07:34:52Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-performance 
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> Hannu Krosing wrote:
>> It would be even better to have now() that returns the time current
>> transaction is COMMITted as this is the time other backend become aware
>> of it ;)

> True, but implementing that would be very hard.

Son, that was a *joke* ...

			regards, tom lane