Re: any way for a transaction to "see" inserts done earlier in the transaction?

Susan Cassidy <susan.cassidy@decisionsciencescorp.com> writes:
> It is a fairly large and complex Perl program, so no, not really.
> I do an insert via a function, which returns the new id, then later I try
> to SELECT on that id, and it doesn't find it.

> Could it be because the insert is done inside a function?

Is the SELECT also inside a database function, and if so is that function
marked stable or immutable?  That might explain it --- non-volatile
functions are intentionally designed not to notice updates that happen
after they start.

                        regards, tom lane