Re: vacuum vs open transactions

On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 11:30:50PM -0700, Michael Fuhr wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 11:49:12AM -0700, Ed L. wrote:
> >
> > Is it possible via SQL query to tell how long a transaction has been open?
>
> I'm not aware of a way to find out when a transaction started, but
> if you have stats_command_string enabled then you can query
> pg_stat_activity to see when a session's current query started.

now() returns the current transaction's start time.

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