Re: Removal of currtid()/currtid2() and some table AM cleanup

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: "Inoue, Hiroshi" <h-inoue(at)dream(dot)email(dot)ne(dot)jp>
Cc: Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Hiroshi Saito <hiroshi(at)winpg(dot)jp>
Subject: Re: Removal of currtid()/currtid2() and some table AM cleanup
Date: 2020-06-05 06:22:28
Message-ID: 20200605062228.GW89559@paquier.xyz
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On Wed, Jun 03, 2020 at 10:10:21PM +0900, Inoue, Hiroshi wrote:
> On 2020/06/03 11:14, Michael Paquier wrote:
>> I have been looking at the ODBC driver and the need for currtid() as
>> well as currtid2(), and as mentioned already in [1], matching with my
>> lookup of things, these are actually not needed by the driver as long
>> as we connect to a server newer than 8.2 able to support RETURNING.
>
> Though currtid2() is necessary even for servers which support RETURNING,
> I don't object to remove it.

In which cases is it getting used then? From what I can see there is
zero coverage for that part in the tests. And based on a rough read
of the code, this would get called with LATEST_TUPLE_LOAD being set,
where there is some kind of bulk deletion involved. Couldn't that be
a problem?
--
Michael

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