Re: [PATCH 08/16] Introduce the ApplyCache module which can reassemble transactions from a stream of interspersed changes

On Thursday, June 28, 2012 06:01:10 PM Robert Haas wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 8:13 PM, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
wrote:
> > It even can be significantly higher than max_connections because
> > subtransactions are only recognizable as part of their parent transaction
> > uppon commit.
>
> I've been wondering whether sub-XID assignment was going to end up on
> the list of things that need to be WAL-logged to enable logical
> replication. It would be nicer to avoid that if we can, but I have a
> feeling that we may not be able to.
I don't think it needs to. We only need that information during commit and we
have it there. If a subtxn aborts a separate abort is logged, so thats no
problem. The 'merging' of the transactions would be slightly easier if we had
the knowledge from the get go but that would add complications again in the
case of rollbacks.

What do you think we need it?

Greetings,

Andres
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