Re: [PATCH] Transaction traceability - txid_status(bigint)

Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Petr Jelinek <petr@2ndquadrant.com>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@bluetreble.com>, Álvaro Herrera <alvaro.herrera@2ndquadrant.com>
Date: 2017-03-25T04:12:48Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> I'm wondering if this is a perl version/platform issue around
> 
>     $tx->pump until $stdout =~ /[[:digit:]]+[\r\n]$/;
> 
> where we're not recognising the required output from psql when we get it.
> 
> What's in src/test/recovery/tmp_check/log/regress_log_011* ?
> 
> I couldn't use PostgresNode::psql or PostgresNode::safe_psql here
> because the session must stay open.

The problem was that psql needs to be called with -X.  Fix committed.

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Commits

  1. Add a txid_status function.

  2. Track the oldest XID that can be safely looked up in CLOG.