> From: "Ann W. Harrison"
> At 12:48 PM 5/28/2004, Ivan Prenosil wrote:
> > >
> > > I would expect sub-transactions to see everything their
> > > parent transaction(s) did up until the spawning point,
> > > and I would expect parent transactions to see everything
> > > their sub-transactions have done once they've committed
> > > (rejoining the parent, thus acting as if the parent has performed
> > > those actions directly)
> >
> >... which would brake the basic behaviour of snapshot transactions.
> >The same row read twice could return different values if the sub-transaction
> >updated that row and committed in between.
>
> I don't know whether that's true or not. Certainly, a transaction
> sees different values in records it updates. If the subtransaction
> is really part of the parent, then that's consistent... sort of...

Then I would expect the changes be visible even before subtrans. commits.

But it does not matter since I have no idea what the whole thing could be good for:-)

Ivan