Re: synchronized snapshots

Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>
To: Joachim Wieland <joe@mcknight.de>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-08-15T07:40:34Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 2:31 AM, Joachim Wieland <joe@mcknight.de> wrote:

> In short, this is how it works:
>
> SELECT pg_export_snapshot();
>  pg_export_snapshot
> --------------------
>  000003A1-1
> (1 row)
>
>
> (and then in a different session)
>
> BEGIN TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL REPEATABLE READ (SNAPSHOT = '000003A1-1');

I don't see the need to change the BEGIN command, which is SQL
Standard. We don't normally do that.

If we have pg_export_snapshot() why not pg_import_snapshot() as well?

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