Wizard Brony <wizardbr...@gmail.com> writes:
> But in my testing, I find that according to that statement, the transaction
> start time is actually "the start of the first non-transaction-control
> statement in the transaction" (as mentioned earlier in the section). Is my
> conclusion correct, or am I misunderstanding the documentation?
It's even looser than that, really: it's the first statement that
requires an MVCC snapshot. From memory, LOCK TABLE is an important
exception --- you can acquire table locks before pinning down
a snapshot, and this is important in some scenarios.
regards, tom lane
