TransactionIdIsActive() has long been unused

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Date: 2025-07-09T18:34:57Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Hi,

While looking at Tomas' NUMA patchset I got curious what we use
TransactionIdIsActive() for (it's modified in the patchset). Turns out we
don't. And haven't for a long while, the last use was removed in

commit bb38fb0d43c
Author: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>
Date:   2014-05-15 16:37:50 +0300

    Fix race condition in preparing a transaction for two-phase commit.

Seems like we should just remove TransactionIdIsActive()?

Greetings,

Andres Freund



Commits

  1. Remove long-unused TransactionIdIsActive()

  2. Fix race condition in preparing a transaction for two-phase commit.