Re: Improving connection scalability: GetSnapshotData()

On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 12:19 PM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> On 2020-07-29 19:20:04 +1200, Thomas Munro wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 6:15 PM Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > +static inline FullTransactionId
> > > +FullXidViaRelative(FullTransactionId rel, TransactionId xid)
> > >
> > > I'm struggling to find a better word for this than "relative".
> >
> > The best I've got is "anchor" xid.  It is an xid that is known to
> > limit nextFullXid's range while the receiving function runs.
>
> Thinking about it, I think that relative is a good descriptor. It's just
> that 'via' is weird. How about: FullXidRelativeTo?

WFM.