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-rw-r--r--src/backend/access/transam/xact.c13
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/access/transam/xact.c b/src/backend/access/transam/xact.c
index b59cea044b9..3716a85dfb2 100644
--- a/src/backend/access/transam/xact.c
+++ b/src/backend/access/transam/xact.c
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
*
*
* IDENTIFICATION
- * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/access/transam/xact.c,v 1.220 2006/04/25 00:25:17 momjian Exp $
+ * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/access/transam/xact.c,v 1.221 2006/06/20 22:51:59 tgl Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@@ -167,9 +167,10 @@ static SubTransactionId currentSubTransactionId;
static CommandId currentCommandId;
/*
- * This is the value of now(), ie, the transaction start time.
- * This does not change as we enter and exit subtransactions, so we don't
- * keep it inside the TransactionState stack.
+ * xactStartTimestamp is the value of transaction_timestamp().
+ * stmtStartTimestamp is the value of statement_timestamp().
+ * These do not change as we enter and exit subtransactions, so we don't
+ * keep them inside the TransactionState stack.
*/
static TimestampTz xactStartTimestamp;
static TimestampTz stmtStartTimestamp;
@@ -1386,7 +1387,9 @@ StartTransaction(void)
XactLockTableInsert(s->transactionId);
/*
- * now() and statement_timestamp() should be the same time
+ * set transaction_timestamp() (a/k/a now()). We want this to be the
+ * same as the first command's statement_timestamp(), so don't do a
+ * fresh GetCurrentTimestamp() call (which'd be expensive anyway).
*/
xactStartTimestamp = stmtStartTimestamp;