Re: Multixid hindsight design

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Multixid hindsight design
Date: 2015-06-05 09:45:09
Message-ID: CANP8+j+mg5qSFEQ=WsBNRaqV7KXWfb1rO3iV3BE1w1MJtyphCw@mail.gmail.com
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On 1 June 2015 at 20:53, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:

> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 9:20 AM, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>
> wrote:
> > The beauty of this would be that the TED entries can be zapped at
> restart,
> > just like pg_subtrans, and pg_multixact before 9.3. It doesn't need to be
> > WAL-logged, and we are free to change its on-disk layout even in a minor
> > release.
>
> What about prepared transactions? They can lock rows FOR SHARE that
> survive server restarts.
>

Interesting comment. I'm not aware that we do.

If we do support row locking that survives server restart, how did it work
before 9.3?

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