[GENERAL] Re: have trouble understanding xmin and xmax with update operationsfrom two different sessions - Mailing list pgsql-general

From rajan
Subject [GENERAL] Re: have trouble understanding xmin and xmax with update operationsfrom two different sessions
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In response to Re: [GENERAL] have trouble understanding xmin and xmax with updateoperations from two different sessions  (stevenchang1213 <stevenchang1213@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: [GENERAL] Re: have trouble understanding xmin and xmax withupdate operations from two different sessions  (Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>)
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hello,

thanks for replies, Adrian, Steven.

>So calling it can advance the xid manually. Some testing here showed
>that what xmin or xmax is created depends on when you call txid_current
>in either the original session or the concurrent sessions.

I understand this and I am executing my statements inside a Transaction
block so the xid is not incremented when calling it.

>Also worth noting that an UPDATE in Postgres is a DELETE/INSERT process.
>The clue is the ctid value. In  Session 2 you are looking at the
>original row(ctid=(0, 2) which has been marked as deleted(non-zero
>xmax). In Session 3 you are looking at the new row(ctid(0, 4)).

Yes. But why (ctid(0,4)) in *Session 3* carries the xmax of the txid 519115
in which the update failed with *UPDATE 0* . This is where I can not
understand,
1. Row (0,4) is updated with correct value and (0,3) is not visible in
Session 2, which is good.
2. but in *Session 3* (0,4) also carries xmax which means what? Is it also
marked for deletion? It can't be, right?




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