Re: SET TRANSACTION SNAPSHOT sounds like replicated environment but isn't

I'm not sure what a final documentation patch might look like but this section can rightfully assume some prior knowledge about how the system works with regards to snapshots.  In particular, a snapshot is effectively a single value that a session maintains that lets it compute whether a given transaction id is visible or not.  So, "whenever you give me data only do so up to this point-in-time".  Understanding that dynamic should lead one to conclude that just having a shared since of "point-in-time" doesn't have anything to do with permissions to interact with specific objects in the first place.  And, for temporary tables, to break the session isolation that it is assumed the reader is aware of.

David J.