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Re: TransactionIdIsActive() has long been unused

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

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Date: 2025-07-09T19:46:43Z
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Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> Seems like we should just remove TransactionIdIsActive()?

+1.  I wondered if any extensions might depend on it, but
could not find any trace of that in Debian code search.
And it's a sufficiently odd test (as noted in its comments)
that one could debate whether using it for an extension's
purposes would be correct anyway.

			regards, tom lane

Commits

  1. Remove long-unused TransactionIdIsActive()

  2. Fix race condition in preparing a transaction for two-phase commit.