| From: | Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)fourpalms(dot)org> |
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| To: | Elaine Lindelef <eel(at)cognitivity(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: timestamp weirdness |
| Date: | 2002-02-01 04:14:02 |
| Message-ID: | 3C5A160A.89B8C17A@fourpalms.org |
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> The oid correctly reflects the order of the insertion of the rows...
> but look at the timestamp - the last row has a timestamp _2 minutes
> before_ the previous row. How could this be happening? We know row
> 69719 was inserted _after_ 69718, by probably about 30 seconds.
The timestamp provided as a result of evaluating 'now' is the time of
the start of the transaction, not the instantaneous wall clock time (if
you want the latter there is a function to provide it).
So, the times will reflect the time the transaction was started, while
the OID will reflect the order in which the insert/update actually
happened within the transaction.
hth
- Thomas
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