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Re: Should we add xid_current() or a int8->xid cast?

Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com>

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From: Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Cc: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com>, Mark Dilger <hornschnorter@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2020-04-02T16:12:28Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 

> On Apr 2, 2020, at 9:06 AM, Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> 
> ("xid8_current" is not exercised by name anywhere in the regression suite, that I can see.)

I spoke too soon.  That's exercised in the new xid.sql test file. It didn't show up in my 'git diff', because it's new.  Sorry about that.

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Mark Dilger
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Commits

  1. Introduce xid8-based functions to replace txid_XXX.

  2. Add SQL type xid8 to expose FullTransactionId to users.

  3. Replace the former method of determining snapshot xmax --- to wit, calling