Re: CREATE INDEX and HOT - revised design

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Pavan Deolasee" <pavan(dot)deolasee(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "Florian G(dot) Pflug" <fgp(at)phlo(dot)org>, "Pavan Deolasee" <pavan(dot)deolasee(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, "Simon Riggs" <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "Bruce Momjian" <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: CREATE INDEX and HOT - revised design
Date: 2007-03-30 17:54:01
Message-ID: 21734.1175277241@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Pavan Deolasee" <pavan(dot)deolasee(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Actually, if we are using Serializable Snapshot then there is no chance
> to replan the query before the transaction completes and the next
> transaction to start in the session must see the index and hence
> we must replan. So it would be enough just to associate a transaction
> id with the cached plan. If this xid is set and our transaction id is
> different than that, we replan.

Hm. So anytime we reject a potentially useful index as being not valid
yet, we mark the plan as "only good for this top-level transaction"?
That seems possibly workable --- in particular it doesn't get more
complicated as soon as you consider multiple such indexes.

regards, tom lane

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