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Re: [PATCH] Lazy xid assingment V2


  • From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
  • To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
  • Cc: "Florian G. Pflug" <fgp(at)phlo(dot)org>, Postgresql-Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
  • Subject: Re: [PATCH] Lazy xid assingment V2
  • Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 22:51:30 -0400
  • Message-id: <20070901025130.GY8046@alvh.no-ip.org> <text/plain>

Tom Lane wrote:

> I note that pg_description defines xid_age as "age of a transaction ID,
> in transactions before current transaction", and I'm content to stick
> with that definition.  Even if it does force consuming an XID.  I'm not
> sure that we could devise a comparably succinct description of any of
> these other proposed behaviors, nor that we should even consider
> changing that description.

Hmm, what happens if somebody calls 
select age(xmin) from bigtable
?

-- 
Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.



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