Re: Final Thoughts for 8.3 on LWLocking and Scalability

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Marko Kreen <markokr(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Final Thoughts for 8.3 on LWLocking and Scalability
Date: 2007-09-11 11:20:19
Message-ID: 1189509619.4281.461.camel@ebony.site
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On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 13:31 +0300, Marko Kreen wrote:
> On 9/11/07, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> > 5. ReadNewTransactionId() is only called now by GetNextXidAndEpoch(),
> > but I can't find a caller of that anywhere in core or contrib. Can those
> > now be removed?
>
> GetNextXidAndEpoch() is needed for external modules to use
> 8-byte transaction ids user-level. Used by txid module in
> Skytools/pgq.
>
> Please keep it.

Guessed it might be you folks that needed it. I'll comment that, so we
don't forget it again.

--
Simon Riggs
2ndQuadrant http://www.2ndQuadrant.com

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