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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@timescale.com>
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Subject: Re: The documentation for READ COMMITTED may be incomplete or wrong
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Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@timescale.com> writes:
> A colleague of mine, Ante Krešić, got puzzled by the following behavior:

That's not a documentation problem.  That's a bug, and an extremely
nasty one.  A quick check shows that it works as expected up through
v13, but fails as described in v14 and later.  Needs bisecting ...

			regards, tom lane