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Chapter 66. Transaction Processing
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Chapter 66. Transaction Processing

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66.1. Transactions and Identifiers
66.2. Transactions and Locking
66.3. Subtransactions
66.4. Two-Phase Transactions

This chapter provides an overview of the internals of PostgreSQL's transaction management system. The word transaction is often abbreviated as xact.

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