Andres Freund <and...@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On 2012-12-06 15:08:51 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> Vlad Arkhipov <arhi...@dc.baikal.ru> writes:
>>> In a BEFORE UPDATE trigger I need to know whether the row was previously
>>> modified by this transaction. Is it safe to use xmin and txid_current()
>>> for this purpose (xmin is 32-bit txid type but txid_current() returns
>>> 64-bit bigint).
> I wonder if we shouldn't have a function txid_is_current(xid);
Yeah, I was wondering that too, and wanted to know if the OP had a
use-case that was mainstream enough to justify adding such a function.
regards, tom lane
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