>>>>> "Martijn" == Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes:
Martijn> Well, what I would suggest is that when you wrap several
Martijn> statements into a single transaction with begin/commit,
Martijn> the whole lot could be considered a single statement
Martijn> (since they form an atomic transaction so in a sense they
Martijn> are all executed simultaneously). And hence Postgresql is
Martijn> perfectly compliant.
FWIW, and not that I am an Oracle fan :-), Oracle seems to interpret
this the same way when using a "select sysdate from dual" inside a
transaction.
roland
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