Re: How to safely compare transaction id?

From: alphax <alphax(at)vip(dot)163(dot)com>
To: Marko Kreen <markokr(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pg-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: How to safely compare transaction id?
Date: 2008-01-13 11:11:08
Message-ID: 4789F1CC.1060906@vip.163.com
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Marko Kreen wroted:
>> By the way, Can I think that the value of system column "ctid" of an
>> record is the logical "current version" of that record, and used to
>> compare with txid returned by "FUNCTIONS-TXID-SNAPSHOT"?
>>
>
> No, it is just physical location of the row.
Thanks, I just done some simple tested,
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// initialize
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
create table test (last_update_tx_id);
insert into test(txid_current());

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Every time I do an update, I found the last_update_tx_id is equal to
the xmin
////////////////////////
begin
update test set last_update_tx_id = txid_current();
commit;

select *, test.xmin from test;
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

So, it seems the system column "cmin" is the logical "current version"
of that record, isn't it?

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