>>>>> "Mike" == Mike Mascari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Mike> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Yury Bokhoncovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> As reported by my friend: Oracle 8.1.7 (ver.9 behaves the same way):
>>> [ to_char(sysdate) advances in a transaction ]
>> Now I'm really confused; this directly contradicts the report
>> of Oracle 8's behavior that we had earlier from Roland Roberts.
>> Can someone explain why the different results?
Mike> Roland used an anonymous PL/SQL procedure:
You're right and I didn't think enough about what was happening. This
also explains why I so often see the same timestamp throughout a
transaction---the transaction is all taking place inside a PL/SQL
procedure.
roland
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