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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Transactions and timestamps
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In response to Transactions and timestamps  (Daniel Åkerud <zilch@home.se>)
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=?iso-8859-1?Q?Daniel_=C5kerud?= <zilch@home.se> writes:
> If I do

> BEGIN
> UPDATE some_session set time_stop =3D CURRENT_TIMESTAMP
> UPDATE another_session set time_start =3D CURRENT_TIMESTAMP
> END

> Is there any chance the current_timestamp will be different?

No.  CURRENT_TIMESTAMP is actually the time of the start of the
transaction.

            regards, tom lane

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