Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> they are, but there's no easy way to figure out what that means in
> terms of wall-clock time, which I think would be useful.
Jan Wieck had a detailed proposal to make that happen at last developper
meeting, but then ran out of time to implement it for 9.1 it seems. The
idea was basically to have a ticker in core, an SRF that would associate
txid_snapshot with wall clock time. Lots of good things would come from
that.
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2010-05/msg01209.php
Of course if you think that's important enough for you to implement it
between now and beta, that would be great :)
Regards,
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