"Florian G. Pflug" <fgp@phlo.org> writes: > Per my post to the hackers list, here is a patch that renamed > latestCompletedXid to latestCommittedXid, and updates it only > on commits. This is wrong --- it will break early detection of aborted subtransactions. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

"Florian G. Pflug" <fgp@phlo.org> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> This is wrong --- it will break early detection of aborted >> subtransactions. > I don't see how - TransactionIdIsInProgress doesn't even touch > latestCompletedXid. Nah, I take that back --- I was worried that XidInMVCCSnapshot might say it was still running when it wasn't, but we never apply XidInMVCCSnapshot to XIDs that we haven't already determined to be committed, so it doesn't matter. It's still a bad idea though. Let me go respond to your -hackers post (which arrived here after the other one). regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq