Re: Repeatable read and serializable transactions see data committed after tx start

On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 04:43:42PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 09:53:18PM +0100, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa wrote:
> >
> > On 07/11/14 22:02, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
> > >Kevin Grittner wrote:
> > >>>I think most people have always assumed that
> > >>>BEGIN starts the transaction and that is the point at
> > >>>which the snapshot is obtained.
> > >>But there is so much evidence to the contrary. Not only does the
> > >>*name* of the command (BEGIN or START) imply a start, but
> > >>pg_stat_activity shows the connection "idle in transaction" after
> > >>the command (and before a snapshot is acquired)
> > >Er...I think we are arguing the same thing here. So no contrary
> > >needed? :)
> >
> > So do we agree to fix the docs? ^_^
>
> Doc patch attached.

Patch applied. Thanks for the report.

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