Re: txid_current() forces a real xid

Marko Kreen wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> > Right now, calling txid_current() causes a session to create a
> > non-virtual xid if not already assigned, so observing the xid creates
> > it, which seems kind of odd. ?Is that intended? ?Here is the C code:
> 
> Yes, it was intentional, the value will be written out.
> 
> It could be even called before actual writing statement is run
> so returning anything that will become invalid later during
> transaction is dangerous.
> 
> If you have use-case that requires frequent calling of that function
> in read-only transaction, and prefer to see virtual txids
> I suggest implementing it as new function.

No, I just considered it strange that it assigned a permenant xid by
asking for the value.

I have added a C comment documenting this behavior.

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