Re: age(xid) on hot standby

On 8 May 2012 20:01, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
> On ons, 2012-01-18 at 14:55 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> BTW, it strikes me that maybe the coding should work about like this:
>>
>>       if (!TransactionIdIsValid(age_reference_xid))
>>       {
>>               age_reference_xid = GetTopTransactionIdIfAny();
>>               if (!TransactionIdIsValid(age_reference_xid))
>>                       age_reference_xid = ReadNewTransactionId();
>>       }
>>       ... use age_reference_xid to compute result ...
>>
>> and of course code somewhere to reset age_reference_xid at end of xact.
>
> How about this patch?

I think we should fix this, but not with this exact patch.

We should just use MyPgXact->xid
rather than add more to the transaction path

I'll simplify the patch and commit.

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