Re: Hot standby, freezing

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Hot standby, freezing
Date: 2009-11-11 15:07:53
Message-ID: 1257952073.5363.1594.camel@ebony
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On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 12:35 +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> While reading through the patch for what must be the 100th time by now,

:-)

> it occurred to me that this comment in heap_xlog_freeze:
>
> + /*
> + * Freezing tuples does not require conflict processing
> + */
>
> is plain wrong. In the master, we can freeze the xmin of a tuple that's
> not yet visible to all read-only transactions in the standby. We do need
> conflict processing there.

I agree. Hmph, I wonder why I thought otherwise?

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Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com

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