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Clarify isolation levels when inside/outside of a transaction. Also fix some weird formatting using hyphen instead of comma or period.
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slug: /en/guides/developer/transactional
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---
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# Transactional (ACID) support
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## Case 1: INSERT into one partition, of one table, of the MergeTree* family
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This is transactional (ACID) if the inserted rows are packed and inserted as a single block (see Notes):
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- Atomic: an INSERT succeeds or is rejected as a whole: if a confirmation is sent to the client, then all rows were inserted; if an error is sent to the client, then no rows were inserted.
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- Consistent: if there are no table constraints violated, then all rows in an INSERT are inserted and the INSERT succeeds; if constraints are violated, then no rows are inserted.
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- Isolated: concurrent clients observe a consistent snapshot of the table–the state of the table either as it was before the INSERT attempt, or after the successful INSERT; no partial state is seen. Clients inside of another transaction have [snapshot isolation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapshot_isolation), while clients outside of a transaction have [read uncommitted](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolation_(database_systems)#Read_uncommitted) isolation level.
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- Durable: a successful INSERT is written to the filesystem before answering to the client, on a single replica or multiple replicas (controlled by the `insert_quorum` setting), and ClickHouse can ask the OS to sync the filesystem data on the storage media (controlled by the `fsync_after_insert` setting).
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- INSERT into multiple tables with one statement is possible if materialized views are involved (the INSERT from the client is to a table which has associate materialized views).
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## Case 2: INSERT into multiple partitions, of one table, of the MergeTree* family
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Same as Case 1 above, with this detail:
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- If table has many partitions and INSERT covers many partitions, then insertion into every partition is transactional on its own
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## Case 3: INSERT into one distributed table of the MergeTree* family
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Same as Case 1 above, with this detail:
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- INSERT into Distributed table is not transactional as a whole, while insertion into every shard is transactional
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## Case 4: Using a Buffer table
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- insert into Buffer tables is neither atomic nor isolated nor consistent nor durable
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## Case 5: Using async_insert
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Same as Case 1 above, with this detail:
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- atomicity is ensured even if `async_insert` is enabled and `wait_for_async_insert` is set to 1 (the default), but if `wait_for_async_insert` is set to 0, then atomicity is not ensured.
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## Notes
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- rows inserted from the client in some data format are packed into a single block when:
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- the insert format is row-based (like CSV, TSV, Values, JSONEachRow, etc) and the data contains less then `max_insert_block_size` rows (~1 000 000 by default) or less then `min_chunk_bytes_for_parallel_parsing` bytes (10 MB by default) in case of parallel parsing is used (enabled by default)
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- the insert format is column-based (like Native, Parquet, ORC, etc) and the data contains only one block of data
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- the size of the inserted block in general may depend on many settings (for example: `max_block_size`, `max_insert_block_size`, `min_insert_block_size_rows`, `min_insert_block_size_bytes`, `preferred_block_size_bytes`, etc)
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- if the client did not receive an answer from the server, the client does not know if the transaction succeeded, and it can repeat the transaction, using exactly-once insertion properties
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- ClickHouse is using [MVCC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiversion_concurrency_control) with [snapshot isolation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapshot_isolation) internally for concurrent transactions
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- all ACID properties are valid even in the case of server kill/crash
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- either insert_quorum into different AZ or fsync should be enabled to ensure durable inserts in the typical setup
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- "consistency" in ACID terms does not cover the semantics of distributed systems, see https://jepsen.io/consistency which is controlled by different settings (select_sequential_consistency)
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- this explanation does not cover a new transactions feature that allow to have full-featured transactions over multiple tables, materialized views, for multiple SELECTs, etc. (see the next section on Transactions, Commit, and Rollback)
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## Transactions, Commit, and Rollback
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In addition to the functionality described at the top of this document, ClickHouse has experimental support for transactions, commits, and rollback functionality.
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### Requirements
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- Deploy ClickHouse Keeper or ZooKeeper to track transactions
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- Atomic DB only (Default)
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- Non-Replicated MergeTree table engine only
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- Enable experimental transaction support by adding this setting in `config.d/transactions.xml`:
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```xml
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<clickhouse>
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<allow_experimental_transactions>1</allow_experimental_transactions>
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</clickhouse>
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```
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### Notes
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- This is an experimental feature, and changes should be expected.
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- If an exception occurs during a transaction, you cannot commit the transaction. This includes all exceptions, including `UNKNOWN_FUNCTION` exceptions caused by typos.
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- Nested transactions are not supported; finish the current transaction and start a new one instead
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### Configuration
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These examples are with a single node ClickHouse server with ClickHouse Keeper enabled.
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#### Enable experimental transaction support
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```xml title=/etc/clickhouse-server/config.d/transactions.xml
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<clickhouse>
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<allow_experimental_transactions>1</allow_experimental_transactions>
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</clickhouse>
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```
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#### Basic configuration for a single ClickHouse server node with ClickHouse Keeper enabled
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:::note
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See the [deployment](docs/en/deployment-guides/terminology.md) documentation for details on deploying ClickHouse server and a proper quorum of ClickHouse Keeper nodes. The configuration shown here is for experimental purposes.
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:::
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```xml title=/etc/clickhouse-server/config.d/config.xml
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<clickhouse replace="true">
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<logger>
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<level>debug</level>
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<log>/var/log/clickhouse-server/clickhouse-server.log</log>
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<errorlog>/var/log/clickhouse-server/clickhouse-server.err.log</errorlog>
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<size>1000M</size>
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<count>3</count>
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</logger>
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<display_name>node 1</display_name>
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<listen_host>0.0.0.0</listen_host>
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<http_port>8123</http_port>
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<tcp_port>9000</tcp_port>
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<zookeeper>
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<node>
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<host>clickhouse-01</host>
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<port>9181</port>
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</node>
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</zookeeper>
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<keeper_server>
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<tcp_port>9181</tcp_port>
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<server_id>1</server_id>
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<log_storage_path>/var/lib/clickhouse/coordination/log</log_storage_path>
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<snapshot_storage_path>/var/lib/clickhouse/coordination/snapshots</snapshot_storage_path>
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<coordination_settings>
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<operation_timeout_ms>10000</operation_timeout_ms>
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<session_timeout_ms>30000</session_timeout_ms>
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<raft_logs_level>information</raft_logs_level>
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</coordination_settings>
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<raft_configuration>
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<server>
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<id>1</id>
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<hostname>clickhouse-keeper-01</hostname>
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<port>9234</port>
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</server>
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</raft_configuration>
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</keeper_server>
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</clickhouse>
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```
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### Example
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#### Verify that experimental transactions are enabled
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Issue a `BEGIN TRANSACTION` or `START TRANSACTION` followed by a `ROLLBACK` to verify that experimental transactions are enabled, and that ClickHouse Keeper is enabled as it is used to track transactions.
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```sql
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BEGIN TRANSACTION
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```
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```response
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Ok.
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```
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:::tip
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If you see the following error, then check your configuration file to make sure that `allow_experimental_transactions` is set to `1` (or any value other than `0` or `false`).
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```
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Code: 48. DB::Exception: Received from localhost:9000.
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DB::Exception: Transactions are not supported.
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(NOT_IMPLEMENTED)
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```
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You can also check ClickHouse Keeper by issuing
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```
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echo ruok | nc localhost 9181
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```
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ClickHouse Keeper should respond with `imok`.
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:::
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```sql
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ROLLBACK
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```
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```response
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Ok.
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```
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#### Create a table for testing
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:::tip
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Creation of tables is not transactional. Run this DDL query outside of a transaction.
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:::
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```sql
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CREATE TABLE mergetree_table
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(
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`n` Int64
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)
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ENGINE = MergeTree
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ORDER BY n
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```
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```response
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Ok.
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```
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#### Begin a transaction and insert a row
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```sql
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BEGIN TRANSACTION
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```
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```response
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Ok.
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```
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```sql
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INSERT INTO mergetree_table FORMAT Values (10)
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```
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```response
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Ok.
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```
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```sql
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SELECT *
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FROM mergetree_table
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```
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```response
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┌──n─┐
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│ 10 │
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└────┘
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```
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:::note
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You can query the table from within a transaction and see that the row was inserted even though it has not yet been committed.
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:::
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#### Rollback the transaction, and query the table again
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Verify that the transaction is rolled back:
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```sql
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ROLLBACK
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```
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```response
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Ok.
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```
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```sql
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SELECT *
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FROM mergetree_table
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```
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```response
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Ok.
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0 rows in set. Elapsed: 0.002 sec.
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```
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#### Complete a transaction and query the table again
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```sql
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BEGIN TRANSACTION
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```
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```response
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Ok.
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```
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```sql
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INSERT INTO mergetree_table FORMAT Values (42)
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```
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```response
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Ok.
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```
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```sql
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COMMIT
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```
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```response
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Ok. Elapsed: 0.002 sec.
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```
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```sql
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SELECT *
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FROM mergetree_table
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```
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```response
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┌──n─┐
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│ 42 │
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└────┘
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```
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### Transactions introspection
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You can inspect transactions by querying the `system.transactions` table, but note that you cannot query that
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table from a session that is in a transaction. Open a second `clickhouse client` session to query that table.
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```sql
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SELECT *
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FROM system.transactions
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FORMAT Vertical
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```
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```response
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Row 1:
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──────
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tid: (33,61,'51e60bce-6b82-4732-9e1d-b40705ae9ab8')
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tid_hash: 11240433987908122467
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elapsed: 210.017820947
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is_readonly: 1
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state: RUNNING
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```
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## More Details
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See this [meta issue](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/48794) to find much more extensive tests and to keep up to date with the progress.
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