Steve - DND wrote:
> > Steve - DND wrote:
> > > Simple question I'm sure, but how can I get the transaction ID
> > that a query
> > > is currently running in? I can find all kinds of documentation
> > talking about
> > > transaction ids, but nothing about how to get the current one.
> >
> > You can look at the xmin of a tuple you created or an xmax of a tuple
> > you deleted.
>
> Let's pretend I don't know how to do that. :) Do you have a link to a page
> in the manual that describes this process, or can you give me a quick
> runthrough of what you're talking about?
Every row has an invisible xmin/xmax columns that represent the xid of
the row inserted, updated, or deleted. Why do you need to know the xid
is a better question.
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