Re: Index-only scans and non-MVCC snapshots

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Ryan Johnson <ryan(dot)johnson(at)cs(dot)utoronto(dot)ca>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Index-only scans and non-MVCC snapshots
Date: 2014-06-27 14:20:20
Message-ID: 20140627142019.GL7340@eldon.alvh.no-ip.org
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Ryan Johnson wrote:
> On 26/06/2014 11:04 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> >Ryan Johnson wrote:
> >>As part of a research project, I'm trying to change Read Committed
> >>isolation to use HeapTupleSatisfiesNow rather than acquiring a new
> >>snapshot at every command [1].
> >Are you aware of this?
> >
> >commit 813fb0315587d32e3b77af1051a0ef517d187763
> >Author: Robert Haas <rhaas(at)postgresql(dot)org>
> >Date: Thu Aug 1 10:46:19 2013 -0400
> >
> > Remove SnapshotNow and HeapTupleSatisfiesNow.
>
> That would be wonderful news... if snapshots weren't so darned
> expensive to create.

I take it you aren't aware of this other effort, either:
http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/539AD153.9000004@vmware.com

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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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