Thread: Using Transaction Blocks w/ SELECT

Goinging throught the libpq docs, I noticed that in all of the examples involving
select statements, transaction blocks are used.  I see why this is necessary for
write operations, but I don't see the need in read operations that don't commit.  Am
I missing something?  Any help appreciated.

postgres@athena.frontlogic.com writes:

> Goinging throught the libpq docs, I noticed that in all of the examples involving
> select statements, transaction blocks are used.  I see why this is necessary for
> write operations, but I don't see the need in read operations that don't commit.  Am
> I missing something?  Any help appreciated.

It's done to get consistent data snapshots across several commands.

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