Josh Berkus wrote: > > 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?
I thought the spec required it, but now that I see it doesn't, I don't know why it was done that way. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org