Re: (Fwd) Re: Any Oracle 9 users? A test please...

From: Roland Roberts <roland(at)astrofoto(dot)org>
To: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: (Fwd) Re: Any Oracle 9 users? A test please...
Date: 2002-10-02 14:48:45
Message-ID: m27kh0j3qq.fsf@kuiper.rlent.pnet
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>>>>> "Mike" == Mike Mascari <mascarm(at)mascari(dot)com> writes:

Mike> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Yury Bokhoncovich <byg(at)center-f1(dot)ru> writes:

>>> As reported by my friend: Oracle 8.1.7 (ver.9 behaves the same way):

>>> [ to_char(sysdate) advances in a transaction ]

>> Now I'm really confused; this directly contradicts the report
>> of Oracle 8's behavior that we had earlier from Roland Roberts.
>> Can someone explain why the different results?

Mike> Roland used an anonymous PL/SQL procedure:

You're right and I didn't think enough about what was happening. This
also explains why I so often see the same timestamp throughout a
transaction---the transaction is all taking place inside a PL/SQL
procedure.

roland
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