Re: getting rid of SnapshotNow

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-odbc(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: getting rid of SnapshotNow
Date: 2013-07-19 16:51:02
Message-ID: 20130719165102.GB4130@eldon.alvh.no-ip.org
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Robert Haas escribió:
> On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Alvaro Herrera
> <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:

> > I think seeing otherwise invisible rows is useful in pgrowlocks. It
> > helps observe the effects on tuples written by concurrent transactions
> > during experimentation. But then, maybe this functionality belongs in
> > pageinspect instead.
>
> It does seem like it should be useful, at least as an option. But I
> feel like changing that ought to be separate from getting rid of
> SnapshotNow. It seems like too big of a behavior change to pass off
> as a harmless tweak.

Agreed.

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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services

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