Re: mvcc catalo gsnapshots and TopTransactionContext

On 2014-01-31 16:41:33 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 03:02:36PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> > > On 2013-10-04 15:15:36 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> > >> Andres, are you (or is anyone) going to try to fix this assertion failure?
> > >
> > > I think short term replacing it by IsTransactionOrTransactionBlock() is
> > > the way to go. Entirely restructuring how cache invalidation in the
> > > abort path works is not a small task.
> >
> > Well, if we're going to go that route, how about something like the
> > attached? I included the assert-change per se, an explanatory
> > comment, and the test case that Noah devised to cause the current
> > assertion to fail.
>
> Is there any plan to commit this?

IMO it has to be applied. Tom objected on the grounds that cache
invalidation has to be fixed properly but that's a major restructuring
of code that worked this way for a long time. So changing the Assert()
to reflect that seems fair to me.
I'd adapt the tests with a sentence explaining what they test, on a
first look they are pretty obscure...

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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