Re: Syncing an application cache with xmin

2013/2/3 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>:
> Jason Dusek <jason.dusek@gmail.com> writes:
>> The idea would be, to store information about the last XID in
>> the last sync and search for XIDs committed since then upon
>> reconnecting for sync. Perhaps `txid_current_snapshot()'
>> preserves enough information. Is this a plausible technique?
>
> Perfectly plausible, and often done in one guise or another.
> You can't expect row XIDs to survive forever --- they'll be
> replaced by FrozenXID after awhile to avoid problems due to
> transaction counter wraparound.  But for delays of a few
> minutes, in a database with an unremarkable transaction rate,
> that's not an issue.

What is the relationship of the epoch-extended XID returned by
`txid_current()' to the XIDs in rows? Do all rows from a
previous epoch always have the FrozenXID?

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Jason Dusek
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