Re: Final Thoughts for 8.3 on LWLocking and Scalability - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 13:31 +0300, Marko Kreen wrote:
> On 9/11/07, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> > 5. ReadNewTransactionId() is only called now by GetNextXidAndEpoch(),
> > but I can't find a caller of that anywhere in core or contrib. Can those
> > now be removed?
> 
> GetNextXidAndEpoch() is needed for external modules to use
> 8-byte transaction ids user-level.  Used by txid module in
> Skytools/pgq.
> 
> Please keep it.

Guessed it might be you folks that needed it. I'll comment that, so we
don't forget it again.

--  Simon Riggs 2ndQuadrant  http://www.2ndQuadrant.com