Re: Regression tests fail on OpenBSD due to low semmns value

Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com> writes:
> I've reproduced this behavior with two reduced sqls.
> prepared_xacts.sql:
> BEGIN TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL SERIALIZABLE;
>    CREATE TABLE pxtest4 (a int);
> PREPARE TRANSACTION 'regress_sub2';
> \c -
> COMMIT PREPARED 'regress_sub2';
> -- the script ends prematurely and doesn't reach COMMIT when \c fails due
> -- to the "too many clients" error.

Hmm, okay.  Not really a bug, or at least I don't see much we could
do about it.

It does seem odd that a prepared transaction --- which, at least
in theory, we should know won't do anything more --- can block
other serializable transactions.  Maybe that could be improved,
but it sounds like a research project not a bug fix.

			regards, tom lane