Re: serializable lock consistency

From: Florian Pflug <fgp(at)phlo(dot)org>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: serializable lock consistency
Date: 2010-12-20 11:52:15
Message-ID: 2C95D837-89CB-4286-A80B-2D36A8B4385E@phlo.org
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On Dec20, 2010, at 07:16 , Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> On 19.12.2010 20:57, Florian Pflug wrote:
>> If we reuse the legacy field xvac to store xlast, we don't get into
>> trouble with binary upgrades either. We' need to find a way to deal
>> with tuples where HEAP_MOVED_IN or HEAP_MOVED_OUT is set, but that
>> seems manageable..
>
> xvac shares the field with command id, and cid is in use while the tuple is being updated.

Right :-(

Well, that nails this coffin shut pretty tightly, unless we were willing to add
another field to heap tuples.

best regards,
Florian Pflug

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