Re: Parallel safety of CURRENT_* family

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: 5bih4k+4jfl6m39j23k(at)guerrillamail(dot)com, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Parallel safety of CURRENT_* family
Date: 2016-12-01 20:40:25
Message-ID: CA+TgmoYv8_fE2=t6roC==6FgvjU2Scdp5DsdvfUFoYXD-cwuKg@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 2:32 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> I wrote:
>> <5bih4k+4jfl6m39j23k(at)guerrillamail(dot)com> writes:
>>> pg_proc shows that now() is marked as restricted, but transaction_timestamp() is marked as safe.
>
>> That's certainly silly, because they're equivalent. I should think
>> they're both safe. Robert?
>
> ... well, they would be if we passed down xactStartTimestamp to parallel
> workers, but I can't find any code that does that. In view of the fact that
> transaction_timestamp() is marked as parallel-safe, this is a bug in 9.6.

Yeah. Do you think we should arrange to pass that down, or change the marking?

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Robert Haas
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