ISTM that xact_desc routines do not work properly when called with
WAL_DEBUG enabled from XLogInsert().
LOG: INSERT @ 0/3740978: prev 0/3740938; xid 5699: Transaction -
commit: 2008-10-14 03:14:14.866437+01; subxacts: 10447936 0
STATEMENT: commit;
LOG: INSERT @ 0/37409F0: prev 0/37409B0; xid 5702: Transaction -
commit: 2008-10-14 03:14:17.687843+01; subxacts: 10447936 0
STATEMENT: commit;
The arrays... work fine in recovery, just not prior to inserting.
Anyway, that led me a merry dance with other code.
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