Re: What is xmin ? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Karsten Hilbert
Subject Re: What is xmin ?
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Msg-id 20050118144309.N817@hermes.hilbert.loc
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In response to What is xmin ?  (Antony Paul <antonypaul24@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: What is xmin ?  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl>)
Re: What is xmin ?  (Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>)
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> Can you guys tell me how to interpret this value. I want to convert
> this to date format. Is it possible ?
No.

XMIN holds the id of the transaction which did the most recent
change to a row as is visible from within the current
transaction. Unless it wraps around (is that possible ?) older
transactions should have XMIN values lower than younger
transactions.

Karsten
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