Mike Lewis escribió:
> I am trying to make a trigger that updates a row once and only once per
> transaction (even if this trigger gets fired multiple times). The general
> idea is that for a user we have a version number. When we modify the
> user's data, the version number is incremented then set on the object. We
> only need to increment the version number once.
>
> I am thinking about doing something like:
>
> update user
> set version=version+1
> where txid_current() != xmin and user_id = 352395;
Uh, txid_current returns a 64 bit value, whereas xmin only stores the 32
least significant bits. They would certainly differ after a xid
wraparound.
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