heap_tuple_needs_freeze false positive - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject heap_tuple_needs_freeze false positive
Date
Msg-id 1328144350-sup-771@alvh.no-ip.org
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Responses Re: heap_tuple_needs_freeze false positive  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Re: heap_tuple_needs_freeze false positive  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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Hi,

I noticed that heap_tuple_needs_freeze might return true in cases where
the Xmax is leftover junk from somebody who set HEAP_XMAX_INVALID in the
far past without resetting the Xmax value itself to Invalid.  I think
this is incorrect usage; the rule, I think, is that one shouldn't even
read Xmax at all unless HEAP_XMAX_INVALID is reset.

This might cause unnecessary acquisitions of the cleanup lock, if a
tuple is deemed freezable when in fact it isn't.

Suggested patch attached.  I'd backpatch this as far as it applies
cleanly.

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Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>

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