"Ruediger Herrmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > has anyone implemented row versions/timestamps in PostgreSQL or any > thoughts on this? > Did I hit the right term? What I want to achieve is optimistic > concurrency beyound transaction boundaries. When retrieving data > I would also retrieve the row version and later on, in a different > transaction, before updating the data, I could check if was unchanged.
You could use the xmin system column for this. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings