Re: BUG #7710: Xid epoch is not updated properly during checkpoint

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, tarvip(at)gmail(dot)com, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #7710: Xid epoch is not updated properly during checkpoint
Date: 2012-12-02 10:12:53
Message-ID: CA+U5nMKFZ7E_5YO2w4=Cs4p41tEpJEjyrz8suuLuS21-8aXdqg@mail.gmail.com
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On 1 December 2012 23:10, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:

>> So barring objections, I'm going to remove LogStandbySnapshot's behavior
>> of returning the updated nextXid.
>
> I don't see any reason why it would be bad to remove this. I think the
> current behaviour could actually even delay getting to an active state
> slightly in the presence of prepared transactions because its used to
> create to initialize the KnownAssignedXid machinery in xlog_redo. If the
> prepared xacts are suboverflown its a *good* thing to have an old
> ->nextXid.

That particular coding was pretty weird. Please change.

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