Re: Missing CONCURRENT VACUUM (Was: Release notes for

From: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)skype(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Missing CONCURRENT VACUUM (Was: Release notes for
Date: 2005-08-17 20:58:19
Message-ID: 1124312299.31798.120.camel@fuji.krosing.net
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On K, 2005-08-17 at 16:45 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)skype(dot)net> writes:
> > On K, 2005-08-17 at 14:48 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> While testing this I realized that it does not in fact work as
> >> advertised. It will only exclude long-running VACUUMs from other
> >> VACUUMs' OldestXmin if *all* the transactions in the system are lazy
> >> VACUUMs. If there is even one regular transaction in the system,
> >> that transaction will include the VACUUMs in its MyProc->xmin, and
> >> thence GetOldestXmin will have to include them in its result.
>
> > Only if these regular transactions are running in SERIALIZABLE isolation
> > level, else MyProc->xmin is not set inside GetSnapshotData.
>
> Better read the code again. The first snap in *any* transaction sets
> MyProc->xmin.

Can't find the place :(

Could you point to the file / function that does this.

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Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)skype(dot)net>

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