Christoph Berg <m...@debian.org> writes: > I think the OP's point was (or should have been), to make txid_current > not draw a new xid when run outside a transaction block, though it's > questionable if that wouldn't just add a POLA-violating layer.
Well, the patch as proposed failed to do that, but in any case I don't see much argument for changing the long-established behavior of that function. Better to add another one if you want a read-only monitoring probe. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers