In an attempt to throw the authorities off his trail, antonypaul24@xxxxxxxxx (Antony Paul) transmitted: > I read about xmin in a thread on optimistic concurrency control. > Can you guys tell me how to interpret this value. I want to convert > this to date format. Is it possible ? xmin is a transaction ID number. There is no such conversion possible. http://www.faqs.org/docs/ppbook/x4636.htm It would be kind of neat if there were some table into which transactions were logged; in that case, there would presumably be a couple of timestamps, namely the time at which the transaction began and the time at which the transaction ended. There is no such table by default. -- wm(X,Y):-write(X),write('@'),write(Y). wm('cbbrowne','acm.org'). http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/languages.html We are in fact well and truly doomed. -- Jamie Zawinski http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/nscpdorm.html ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html