Functions / System Administration Functions

pg_export_snapshot

Saves the transaction's current snapshot and returns a text string identifying the snapshot.

Reading PG 18current·documented in 16 of 27 versions, 9.2 to 20

7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.6 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

Signatures & examples

pg_export_snapshot () → text

Saves the transaction's current snapshot and returns a text string identifying the snapshot. This string must be passed (outside the database) to clients that want to import the snapshot. The snapshot is available for import only until the end of the transaction that exported it.

Version history 2

12 → 13 changed
9.1 → 9.2 added

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