Re: Reduce pinning in btree indexes

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Reduce pinning in btree indexes
Date: 2015-03-13 12:52:29
Message-ID: CA+U5nMLPk8xtR3ABebOMu=AW-y0Rgyr6aVv7gHuFeGyocPYTDg@mail.gmail.com
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On 15 February 2015 at 00:19, Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com> wrote:

> What they wanted was what happened in the other database product --
> if a snapshot got sufficiently old that cleaning up the MVCC data
> was a problem *and* the snapshot was used again *and* it read a
> page which had been modified far enough back that it was not
> possible to return correct data, then they wanted to receive a
> "snapshot too old" error. I wrote a patch to do that...

So, please lets see the patch. It seems useful for core Postgres.

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Simon Riggs http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, RemoteDBA, Training & Services

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