Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> I wonder whether we shouldn't extend this into VACUUM FULL too, to
> >> prevent cancel once it's done that internal commit. It would fix
> >> the "PANIC: can't abort a committed transaction" problem V.F. has.
>
> > Hmm, it seems to work. The attached is for 8.1.
>
> Looks OK, but please update the comment right before the
> RecordTransactionCommit, along the lines of "We prevent cancel
> interrupts after this point to mitigate the problem that you
> can't abort the transaction now".
BTW I'm thinking in backpatching this all the way back to 7.4 -- are
we agreed on that?
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