On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 03:22:50PM -0700, Michael Fuhr wrote: > On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 05:05:19PM -0500, Eric B. Ridge wrote: > > Is there some kind of "TopXID" magic variable/function that I haven't > > found in the documentation? > > Not in the standard installation, but I think a C function that > returns GetTopTransactionId() should work. It's trivial to write > and examples have been posted before; search the archives. Tom made a good point against using this value: it's not guaranteed to be unique, for example after a dump and reload. I suppose that's a strong reason why the developers haven't provided such easy access to it. -- Michael Fuhr