Re: Row versioning

thanks for your replay. This approach sounds very comfy. As I read the
documentation this is kind of a "transaction sequence" or better a
"unique transaction id". Am I right with this? So every row inserted or
updated within the same transaction is tagged with the same xmin.

Is there any information wether this approach is future proof? I heard
the OID is depecated now, maybe XMIN is next, no idea...

TIA
Ruediger


> > has anyone implemented row versions/timestamps in
> PostgreSQL or any
> > thoughts on this?
> > Did I hit the right term? What I want to achieve
> is optimistic
> > concurrency beyound transaction boundaries. When
> retrieving data
> > I would also retrieve the row version and later
> on, in a different
> > transaction, before updating the data, I could
> check if was unchanged.
>
> You could use the xmin system column for this.
>
>             regards, tom lane
>
>
>

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