Using Transaction Blocks w/ SELECT

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Subject: Using Transaction Blocks w/ SELECT
Date: 2001-04-26 21:46:56
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Goinging throught the libpq docs, I noticed that in all of the examples involving
select statements, transaction blocks are used. I see why this is necessary for
write operations, but I don't see the need in read operations that don't commit. Am
I missing something? Any help appreciated.

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