From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: foreign key locks, 2nd attempt |
Date: | 2012-03-16 00:53:05 |
Message-ID: | 1331859074-sup-6025@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of jue mar 15 21:37:36 -0300 2012:
>
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> >>> You still have HEAP_XMAX_{INVALID,COMMITTED} to reduce the pressure on mxid
> >>> lookups, so I think something more sophisticated is needed to exercise that
> >>> cost. Not sure what.
> >>
> >> I don't think HEAP_XMAX_COMMITTED is much help, because committed !=
> >> all-visible.
> >
> > So because committed does not equal all visible there will be
> > additional lookups on mxids? That's complete rubbish.
>
> Noah seemed to be implying that once the updating transaction
> committed, HEAP_XMAX_COMMITTED would get set and save the mxid lookup.
> But I think that's not true, because anyone who looks at the tuple
> afterward will still need to know the exact xmax, to test it against
> their snapshot.
Yeah, we don't set HEAP_XMAX_COMMITTED on multis, even when there's an
update in it and it committed. I think we could handle it, at least
some of the cases, but that'd require careful re-examination of all the
tqual.c code, which is not something I want to do right now.
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