"Frank van Vugt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sidenote: since it does solve my problem, I can now build an index based on > such an interpretation of xmin, I'm a bit anxious as to how this will > be 'fixed', if at all ;)
Actually this was noticed only recently but that was precisely because it was related to some significant changes that were being made. Because of those changes 8.3 behaves markedly different in this area: postgres=# select xmin || 'x' from w limit 1; ?column? ---------- 1679x (1 row) -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend