Re: Fix showing XID of a spectoken lock in an incorrect field of pg_locks view.

On Fri, Jan 6, 2023 at 9:00 PM Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Jan 5, 2023 at 11:46 AM Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> > Agreed. Attached the updated patch.
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> Thanks, the patch looks good to me. I think it would be probably good
> to backpatch this but it has the potential to break some monitoring
> scripts which were using the wrong columns for transaction id and spec
> token number.

Right.

> As this is not a very critical issue and is not reported
> till now, so it may be better to leave backpatching it. What do you
> think?

Considering the compatibility, I'm inclined to agree not to backpatch
it. If someone complains about the current behavior in back branches
in the future, we can backpatch it.

Regards,

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