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.

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