Re: MVCC snapshot timing

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-documentation <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: MVCC snapshot timing
Date: 2013-11-11 20:39:45
Message-ID: 13024.1384202385@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> I received a private email report that our introductory MVCC
> documentation is unclear about when a snapshot is taken. I have
> adjusted the wording in the attached patch to be less precise about
> snapshot timing. Snapshot timing is controlled by the session isolation
> level, which I don't think we want to cover in this introductory
> paragraph.

I'm not really seeing the point of s/transaction/session/ here.
The phrasing is a bit awkward and maybe could be improved, but I think you
should keep it referring to transactions.

regards, tom lane

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