Re: Repeatable Read Isolation Level "transaction start time"

From: Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
To: Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Wizard Brony <wizardbrony(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Repeatable Read Isolation Level "transaction start time"
Date: 2024-09-25 17:44:42
Message-ID: e9dba83f-0fba-4113-a13a-58aa2a98f092@aklaver.com
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On 9/25/24 10:22 AM, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2024 at 10:28 AM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us
> <mailto:tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>> wrote:
>
> It's even looser than that, really: it's the first statement that
> requires an MVCC snapshot.
>
>
> Hm....so why does "SELECT 1;" work as a transaction start marker then,
> as opposed to "SHOW work_mem;", which does not? Do we simply consider
> anything with a SELECT as needing a snapshot?

SELECT some_func();

Where some_func() does something that requires a snapshot.

>
> Cheers,
> Greg
>

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Adrian Klaver
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