Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql-server: Rearrange pg_subtrans handling as

From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)svr1(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql-server: Rearrange pg_subtrans handling as
Date: 2004-08-24 01:17:59
Message-ID: 412A9747.5060807@familyhealth.com.au
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Just random speculation, but could we use a pg_subtrans-like setup to do
row share locks?

ie. Store them in a sort of table to avoid the problems with limited
shared memory size?

Chris

Tom Lane wrote:

> Log Message:
> -----------
> Rearrange pg_subtrans handling as per recent discussion. pg_subtrans
> updates are no longer WAL-logged nor even fsync'd; we do not need to,
> since after a crash no old pg_subtrans data is needed again. We truncate
> pg_subtrans to RecentGlobalXmin at each checkpoint. slru.c's API is
> refactored a little bit to separate out the necessary decisions.

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