Re: Testing the async-commit patch

From: "Simon Riggs" <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Gregory Stark" <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Testing the async-commit patch
Date: 2007-08-14 16:34:57
Message-ID: 1187109297.4162.32.camel@ebony.site
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On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 12:29 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Simon Riggs" <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 12:09 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> heapam.c lines 1843-1852 presume previous xmax can be hinted
> >> immediately, ditto lines 2167-2176, ditto lines 2716-2725.
> >> I think probably we should just remove those lines --- they are only
> >> trying to save work for future tqual.c calls.
>
> > I'll check those out later tonight.
>
> [ looks closer ] Actually, we can't just dike out those code sections,
> because the immediately following code assumes that XMAX_INVALID is
> correct. So I guess we need to export HeapTupleSetHintBits from tqual.c
> and do the full pushup in these places.

[ without looking ] XMAX_INVALID is always set if we know it, so that
wouldn't be a reason to do that.

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Simon Riggs
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

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