Re: Review: Fix snapshot taking inconsistencies

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Marko Tiikkaja <marko.tiikkaja@cs.helsinki.fi>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Steve Singer <ssinger_pg@sympatico.ca>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-02-26T05:09:31Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Marko Tiikkaja <marko.tiikkaja@cs.helsinki.fi> writes:
>> On 2011-02-24 5:21 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Oh, did we decide to do it that way?  OK with me, but the submitted docs
>>> are woefully inadequate on the point.  This behavior is going to have to
>>> be explained extremely clearly (and even so, I bet we'll get bug reports
>>> about it :-().
>
>> I'm ready to put more effort into the documentation if the patch is
>> going in, but I really don't want to waste my time just to hear that the
>> patch is not going to be in 9.1.  Does this sound acceptable?
>
> I've found some things I don't like about it, but the only part that
> seems far short of being committable is the documentation.

Tom/Alvaro, have the two of you hammered out who is going to finish
this one off?  I *believe* Alvaro told me on IM that he was leaving
this one for Tom.

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