Re: lifetime of the old CTID

El día Dienstag, Juli 05, 2022 a las 10:40:40 +0200, Laurenz Albe escribió:

> On Tue, 2022-07-05 at 09:51 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> > We're using the SQL function currtid2() to get the new CTID of a row
> > when this was UPDATEd.
> >
> > Investigating cases of failing updates, it turns out that the old CTID
> > has only a limited lifetime; one can check this with SQL:
> >
> > sisis=# select ctid, d01gsi from d01buch where d01gsi = '0240564';
> >     ctid    |           d01gsi           
> > ------------+-----------------------------
> >  (29036,11) | 0240564
> >
> > now I update the row and afterwards pick up the new CTID based on the
> > old one (29036,11):
> >
> > sisis=# UPDATE d01buch set d01ort='Wolfratshausen' where d01gsi='0240564';
> > UPDATE 1
> > sisis=# SELECT currtid2('d01buch'::text, '(29036,11)'::tid);
> >  currtid2 
> > -----------
> >  (29036,7)
> >
> > Now I go and pick up a coffe in our kitchen and check again:
> >
> > sisis=# SELECT currtid2('d01buch'::text, '(29036,11)'::tid);
> >   currtid2 
> > ------------
> >  (29036,11)
> >
> > i.e. the function now only returns it argument. and not the new CTID
> > anymore.
> >
> > Why is this? And what triggers exactly that the old CTID can't be used
> > anymore?
>
> It is probably the fault of your coffee.

Correct, the coffee machine is broken and never does show when the
milk powder is empty already :-)

> Another explanation could be that the HOT chain was pruned while you were away.

What exactly means "the HOT chain was pruned"? What is the HOT chain?

Thanks

matthias

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