Re: [HACKERS] getting rid of SnapshotNow

Andres Freund escribió:
> On 2013-07-18 12:01:39 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Alvaro Herrera
> > <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> > > They don't show up in a quick grep of psqlodbc's source code, FWIW.
> >
> > Hmm. Maybe we should just remove them and see if anyone complains.
> > We could always put them back (or make them available via contrib) if
> > it's functionality someone actually needs. The last discussion of
> > those functions was in 2007 and nobody seemed too sure back then
> > either, so maybe the rumor that anyone is actually using this is no
> > more than rumor.
>
> I am pretty sure they are still used. A quick grep on a not too old
> checkout prooves that... Note that the sql accessible functions are
> named currtid and currtid2 (yes, really)...

Ah, yeah, that does show up. I had grepped for 'currtid_'. Sorry.
They're all in positioned_load() in results.c.

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