Re: age(xid) on hot standby

On 9 May 2012 00:55, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> On 8 May 2012 20:01, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.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.

Committed, but forgot to give appropriate credit. Sorry about that.

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