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pg_prepared_xacts

The view pg_prepared_xacts displays information about transactions that are currently prepared for two-phase commit (see PREPARE TRANSACTION for details). pg_prepared_xacts contains one row per prepared transaction. An entry is removed when the transaction is committed or rolled back.

First seen PG 9.0Last seen PG 19Columns 5

Checked column by column against a PostgreSQL 18.6 instance · Raw measurement record ↗

Columns PostgreSQL 18

pg_prepared_xacts
COLUMNTYPEDESCRIPTION
transaction xid Numeric transaction identifier of the prepared transaction
gid text Global transaction identifier that was assigned to the transaction
prepared timestamp with time zoneDocumented as:timestamptz Time at which the transaction was prepared for commit
owner name Name of the user that executed the transactionReferences:pg_authid.rolname
database name Name of the database in which the transaction was executedReferences:pg_database.datname

Columns marked "implicit" are not included in SELECT *; some early statistics views are completed from same-version source, and the extra provenance is shown in the column description.

Column evolution matrix

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PresentAdded / type or attribute changeRemoved
COLUMN9.09.19.29.39.49.59.610111213141516171819
transaction
gid
prepared
owner
database

9.0 is the coverage baseline; a column already present in the baseline is not marked as added. The matrix aligns columns by name, so a rename appears as the old column removed and a new column added.

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