Re: pgsql: Delay commit status checks until freezing executes.

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pgsql: Delay commit status checks until freezing executes.
Date: 2023-01-06 19:16:00
Message-ID: CAH2-Wzn4bEEqgmaUQL3aJ73yM9gAeK-wE4ngi7kjRjLztb+P0w@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Jan 3, 2023 at 10:52 PM Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie> wrote:
> > And it'd make sense to have
> > the explanation of why TransactionIdDidAbort() isn't the same as
> > !TransactionIdDidCommit(), even for !TransactionIdIsInProgress() xacts, near
> > the explanation for doing TransactionIdIsInProgress() first.
>
> I think that we should definitely have a comment directly over
> TransactionIdDidAbort(). Though I wouldn't mind reorganizing these
> other comments, or making the comment over TransactionIdDidAbort()
> mostly just point to the other comments.

What do you think of the attached patch, which revises comments over
TransactionIdDidAbort, and adds something about it to the top of
heapam_visbility.c?

--
Peter Geoghegan

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v1-0001-Document-TransactionIdDidAbort-hard-crash-behavio.patch application/octet-stream 3.8 KB

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