Re: Hot standby, xlog_xact_assignment and unreported subxids.

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, xlog_xact_assignment and unreported subxids.
Date: 2009-10-14 11:50:48
Message-ID: 1255521048.15590.8436.camel@ebony
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On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 14:43 +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> In the hot standby patch, we have this comment in procarray.c:
>
> > It is
> > * important that the XLOG_XACT_ASSIGNMENT record contain *all* subxids
> > * not just those so far unreported because the sole purpose is to ensure
> > * we can remove the xids from KnownAssignedXids.
>
> As the patch stands, that's not what we do. We only include new subxids
> in the XLOG_XACT_ASSIGNMENT record that we haven't included in any
> previous ones.

That's the correct handling, in my view.

> I think that comment is just obsolete and should be
> removed, but am I missing something?

I agree it looks wrong. (Did I write that??)

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Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com

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