Re: Repeatable read and serializable transactions see data committed after tx start - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Sat, Nov  8, 2014 at 09:53:18PM +0100, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa wrote:
>
> On 07/11/14 22:02, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
> >Kevin Grittner wrote:
> >>>I think most people have always assumed that
> >>>BEGIN starts the transaction and that is the point at
> >>>which the snapshot is obtained.
> >>But there is so much evidence to the contrary.  Not only does the
> >>*name* of the command (BEGIN or START) imply a start, but
> >>pg_stat_activity shows the connection "idle in transaction" after
> >>the command (and before a snapshot is acquired)
> >Er...I think we are arguing the same thing here. So no contrary
> >needed? :)
>
>     So do we agree to fix the docs? ^_^

Doc patch attached.

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