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Re: advancing snapshot's xmin

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>

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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>, Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2008-03-28T14:26:34Z
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Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 10:35 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> 
> > The problem is that we always consider every transaction's PGPROC->xid
> > in calculating MyProc->xmin.  So if you have a long running
> > transaction, it doesn't matter how far beyond the snapshots are -- the
> > value returned by GetOldestXmin will always be at most the old
> > transaction's Xid.  Even if that transaction cannot see the old rows
> > because all of its snapshots are way in the future.
> 
> It may not have a TransactionId yet.

How is this a problen?  If it ever gets one, it will be in the future.

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