Re: Review: Fix snapshot taking inconsistencies

From: Marko Tiikkaja <marko(dot)tiikkaja(at)cs(dot)helsinki(dot)fi>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Steve Singer <ssinger_pg(at)sympatico(dot)ca>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Review: Fix snapshot taking inconsistencies
Date: 2011-02-28 19:39:17
Message-ID: 4D6BF9E5.6020008@cs.helsinki.fi
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On 2011-02-28 9:36 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Marko Tiikkaja<marko(dot)tiikkaja(at)cs(dot)helsinki(dot)fi> writes:
>> On 2011-02-28 9:03 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> OK, and which behavior is getting changed, to what? I am not interested
>>> in trying to reverse-engineer a specification from the patch.
>
>> My recollection is (and the archives seem to agree) that normal
>> execution and SQL functions were changed to only advance the CID instead
>> of taking a new snapshot. EXPLAIN ANALYZE and SPI (not exactly sure
>> about this one) did that already so they were just changed to use the
>> new API.
>
> OK, so the intent is that in all cases, we just advance CID and don't
> take a new snapshot between queries that were generated (by rule
> expansion) from a single original parsetree? But we still take a new
> snap between original parsetrees? Works for me.

Exactly.

Regards,
Marko Tiikkaja

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