Re: What is xmin ?

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>
To: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: What is xmin ?
Date: 2005-01-18 21:16:01
Message-ID: 20050118211601.GA8689@dcc.uchile.cl
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On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 01:16:55PM -0500, Christopher Browne wrote:

> It would be kind of neat if there were some table into which
> transactions were logged; in that case, there would presumably be a
> couple of timestamps, namely the time at which the transaction began
> and the time at which the transaction ended. There is no such table
> by default.

It would be useful in a savepoints' world only if accompanied by the
time a subtransaction began and ended, and the information about
parent/child relationship.

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Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[(at)]dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>)
"Tiene valor aquel que admite que es un cobarde" (Fernandel)

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