Bruce,
> I don't see how we can defend returning the start of the transaction as > the current_timestamp. In a multi-statement transaction, that doesn't > seem very current to me. I know there are some advantages to returning > the same value for all queries in a transaction, but is that value worth > returning such stale time information? Then what *was* the reasoning behind the current behavior? -- -Josh Berkus ______AGLIO DATABASE SOLUTIONS___________________________ Josh Berkus Complete information technology [EMAIL PROTECTED] and data management solutions (415) 565-7293 for law firms, small businesses fax 621-2533 and non-profit organizations. San Francisco ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly