Re: mvcc catalo gsnapshots and TopTransactionContext

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: mvcc catalo gsnapshots and TopTransactionContext
Date: 2014-02-05 23:20:19
Message-ID: 20140205232019.GG28649@alap3.anarazel.de
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On 2014-02-05 14:07:29 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> I stuck such an Assert in ScanPgRelation, and verified that it doesn't
> break any existing regression tests --- although of course the above
> test case still fails, and now even without declaring an index.
>
> Barring objections I'll go commit that. It's a bit pointless to be
> Asserting that catcache.c does nothing unsafe when relcache.c does
> the same things without any such test.
>
> (Alternatively, maybe we should centralize the asserting in
> systable_beginscan or some such place?)

I don't have a problem with sticking an additional assert elsewhere, but
I think ScanPgRelation, systable_beginscan are a bit late, because they
frequently won't be hit during testing because the lookups will be
cached...

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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