Re: synchronized snapshots

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On tis, 2011-08-16 at 20:35 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > In fact, now that I think about it, setting the transaction snapshot
> > from a utility statement would be functionally useful because then you
> > could take locks beforehand.
> 
> Another issue is that in some client interfaces, BEGIN and COMMIT are
> hidden behind API calls, which cannot easily be changed or equipped with
> new parameters.  So in order to have this functionality available
> through those interfaces, we'd need a separately callable command.

How do they set a transaction to SERIALIZABLE?  Seem the same syntax
should be used here.

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