Re: Remove xmin and cmin from frozen tuples

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, ITAGAKI Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>
Subject: Re: Remove xmin and cmin from frozen tuples
Date: 2005-09-02 21:18:09
Message-ID: 18155.1125695889@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Updated TODO:

> o Allow COPY on a newly-created table to skip WAL logging

> On crash recovery, the table involved in the COPY would
> have its heap and index files truncated. One issue is
> that no other backend should be able to add to the table
> at the same time, which is something that is currently
> allowed.

This is simply wrong. (1) a table created in the current transaction
isn't visible to anyone else, (2) the correct rollback state is for
it not to be there, rather than be there and empty.

regards, tom lane

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