Re: GlobalVisIsRemovableFullXid() vs GlobalVisCheckRemovableXid()

Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>

From: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
To: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-02-14T22:07:37Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 10:02 AM Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 6, 2021 at 7:40 PM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> > Looks like a mistake on my part... Probably a rename regex that somehow
> > went wrong - I went back and forth on those names way too many
> > times. Want me to push the fix?
>
> Spotted another one: Shouldn't ReadNextFullTransactionId() actually be
> called ReadNewFullTransactionId()? Actually, the inverse approach
> looks like it produces fewer inconsistencies: you could instead rename
> ReadNewTransactionId() to ReadNextTransactionId().

I prefer "next", because that's in the name of the variable it reads,
and the variable name seemed to me to have a more obvious meaning.
That's why I went for that name in commit 2fc7af5e966.  I do agree
that it's slightly strange that the 32 and 64 bit versions differ
here.  I'd vote for renaming the 32 bit version to match...



Commits

  1. ReadNewTransactionId() -> ReadNextTransactionId().

  2. Rename removable xid function for consistency.

  3. Add basic infrastructure for 64 bit transaction IDs.