Re: transction_timestamp() inside of procedures

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: transction_timestamp() inside of procedures
Date: 2018-09-21 05:12:06
Message-ID: 20180921051206.bzfiew4nthmunpbj@alap3.anarazel.de
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Hi,

On 2018-09-21 13:55:36 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 07:40:40PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > This surprised me since I expected a new timestamp after commit. Is
> > this something we want to change or document? Are there other
> > per-transaction behaviors we should adjust?
>
> I don't quite follow your argument here. clock_timestamp is known to be
> volatile, while the two others are stable, so its value can change
> within a transaction.

Isn't the point that transaction_timestamp() does *not* currently change
its value, even though the transaction (although not the outermost
statement) has finished?

I think Bruce has quite the point here.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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