| From: | Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com> |
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| To: | Timur Irmatov <itvthor(at)sdf(dot)lonestar(dot)org> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: transactions |
| Date: | 2002-09-11 18:58:04 |
| Message-ID: | 3D7F923C.9D1CED8C@Yahoo.com |
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Timur Irmatov wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> I develop a web-site with cgi-s written in perl, which access
> PostgreSQL database..
>
> In my scripts I have a sequence of selects.
>
> Is it faster to wrap them all in transaction ?
Not only is it faster, it gives you the advantage of MVCC too,
presenting you a snapshot of the database. So no concurrent
UPDATES done by someone else are visible to you.
Jan
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