Re: Lazy xid assignment V4

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Florian G(dot) Pflug" <fgp(at)phlo(dot)org>
Cc: PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Lazy xid assignment V4
Date: 2007-09-05 16:56:03
Message-ID: 18702.1189011363@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Florian G. Pflug" <fgp(at)phlo(dot)org> writes:
> However, none of these are very strong reasons - certainly weaker than
> doing what ensures to cause the least confusion. I'm therefore
> starting to think that we should remove transaction, and keep the name
> virtualtransaction for the VXID. That will ensure that clients who
> *do* rely on pg_locks and the "transaction" column (which will be few,
> I guess) at least fail early and visibly, instead of producing bogus
> results...

Barring other objections, I'll do it that way.

regards, tom lane

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