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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL-documentation <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: MVCC snapshot timing
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 15:39:45 -0500
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Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> writes:
> I received a private email report that our introductory MVCC
> documentation is unclear about when a snapshot is taken.  I have
> adjusted the wording in the attached patch to be less precise about
> snapshot timing. Snapshot timing is controlled by the session isolation
> level, which I don't think we want to cover in this introductory
> paragraph.

I'm not really seeing the point of s/transaction/session/ here.
The phrasing is a bit awkward and maybe could be improved, but I think you
should keep it referring to transactions.

			regards, tom lane


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