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Pre-release documentation. PostgreSQL 19 Beta 3 is a testing release. The final release may differ.

Chapter 67. Transaction Processing

This chapter provides an overview of the internals of PostgreSQL's transaction management system. The word transaction is often abbreviated as xact.

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