Re: SSI work for 9.1

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>, Dan Ports <drkp@csail.mit.edu>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2011-06-17T03:49:48Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 5:10 AM, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> On 14.06.2011 17:57, Kevin Grittner wrote:
>>
>> Heikki Linnakangas<heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> I did some further changes, refactoring SkipSerialization so that
>>> it's hopefully more readable, and added a comment about the
>>> side-effects. See attached. Let me know if I'm missing something.
>>
>> I do think the changes improve readability.  I don't see anything
>> missing, but there's something we can drop.  Now that you've split
>> the read and write tests, this part can be dropped from the
>> SerializationNeededForWrite function:
>>
>> +
>> +       /* Check if we have just become "RO-safe". */
>> +       if (SxactIsROSafe(MySerializableXact))
>> +       {
>> +               ReleasePredicateLocks(false);
>> +               return false;
>> +       }
>>
>> If it's doing a write, it can't be a read-only transaction....
>
> Ah, good point. Committed with that removed.

Does this mean that the open item "more SSI loose ends" can now be
marked resolved?

http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PostgreSQL_9.1_Open_Items

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