Roland Roberts wrote:
> >>>>> "Ross" == Ross J Reedstrom <reedstrm@rice.edu> writes:
>
> Ross> Oh, interesting datapoint. Let me get this clear - on
> Ross> oracle, the equivalent of:
>
> Well, I've never gone off to lunch in the middle, but in Oracle 7, I
> had transactions which definitely took as much as a few minutes to
> complete where the timestamp on every row committed was the same.
Can you run a test:
BEGIN;
SELECT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP;
wait 5 seconds
SELECT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP;
Are the two times the same?
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