Re: Make HeapTupleSatisfiesMVCC more concurrent

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Make HeapTupleSatisfiesMVCC more concurrent
Date: 2015-08-19 14:08:24
Message-ID: 20150819140824.GB10770@awork2.anarazel.de
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On 2015-08-18 20:36:13 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> I wrote:
> > Just thinking about this ... I wonder why we need to call
> > TransactionIdIsInProgress() at all rather than believing the answer from
> > the snapshot? Under what circumstances could TransactionIdIsInProgress()
> > return true where XidInMVCCSnapshot() had not?
>
> I experimented with the attached patch, which replaces
> HeapTupleSatisfiesMVCC's calls of TransactionIdIsInProgress with
> XidInMVCCSnapshot, and then as a cross-check has all the "return false"
> exits from XidInMVCCSnapshot assert !TransactionIdIsInProgress().

I'm not sure about it, but it might be worthwhile to add a
TransactionIdIsKnownCompleted() check before the more expensive parts of
XidInMVCCSnapshot(). Neither the array search nor, much more so, the
subtrans lookups are free.

- Andres

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