Re: Using xmin to identify last modified rows

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 5:21 AM, Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com> wrote:

> I'm not sure using xmin is such a great idea really. It's handy for ad-hoc
> queries but there are all kinds of cases where it might not give you the
> results you expect.


Its been a while since the following emails were written.  Has the
treatment of xmin changed since then, or is using a timestamp a better
practice?

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-novice/2007-02/msg00079.php
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2004-02/msg00654.php

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