Re: time stops within transaction

From: Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Alex Pilosov <alex(at)pilosoft(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: time stops within transaction
Date: 2000-10-19 03:48:09
Message-ID: 39EE6EF9.5B0A4C89@tpf.co.jp
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Tom Lane wrote:

> Alex Pilosov <alex(at)pilosoft(dot)com> writes:
> >> Consider statement boundaries in an SQL function --- the
> >> function is probably being called from some outer statement, so
> >> advancing now() within the function would violate the spec constraint
> >> with respect to the outer statement.
> > Postgres doesn't have an idea of what a 'top-level' statement is? I.E.
> > statement as submitted by a client (libpq)?
>
> There's never been any reason to make such a distinction.

There's already a distinction.
Snapshot is made per top-level statement and functions/subqueries
use the same snapshot as that of top-level statement.

Regards.

Hiroshi Inoue

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