Don't try to fetch database name when SetTransactionIdLimit() is executed

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Commit: def30e84c41389225ee9e56cb7c722980bab9746
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2010-10-20T16:48:51Z
Releases: 9.1.0
Don't try to fetch database name when SetTransactionIdLimit() is executed
outside a transaction.

This repairs brain fade in my patch of 2009-08-30: the reason we had been
storing oldest-database name, not OID, in ShmemVariableCache was of course
to avoid having to do a catalog lookup at times when it might be unsafe.

This error explains why Aleksandr Dushein is having trouble getting out of
an XID wraparound state in bug #5718, though not how he got into that state
in the first place.  I suspect pg_upgrade is at fault there.

Files

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src/backend/access/transam/varsup.c modified +14 −4