Re: SetQuerySnapshot() for utility statements

From: "Vadim Mikheev" <vmikheev(at)sectorbase(dot)com>
To: <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: SetQuerySnapshot() for utility statements
Date: 2000-10-19 05:13:18
Message-ID: 00b001c0398b$4bc34660$b77a30d0@sectorbase.com
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> I notice that ProcessUtility() calls SetQuerySnapshot() for FETCH
> and COPY TO statements, and nothing else.
>
> Seems to me this is very broken. Isn't a query snapshot needed for
> any utility command that might do database accesses?

Not needed. We don't support multi-versioning for schema operations.
More of that, sometimes it would be better to read *dirty* data from
system tables - so, no snapshot required.

What is really, hm, not good is that first SetQuerySnapshot defines
serializable snapshot for *all* transactions, even for ones with read
committed
isolevel: in the times of 6.5 I thought about ability to switch between
isolevels
inside single xaction - this is not required by standard and *bad* for
system:
just remember that vacuum doesn't clean up deleted tuples if there is some
transaction *potentially* interested in them. For read committed xactions
must be no serializable snapshot defined and MyProc->xmin must be
updated when *each* top-level query begins.

Vadim

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