Re: HOT synced with HEAD - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: HOT synced with HEAD
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Msg-id 17986.1189970171@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: HOT synced with HEAD  ("Pavan Deolasee" <pavan.deolasee@gmail.com>)
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"Pavan Deolasee" <pavan.deolasee@gmail.com> writes:
> So are you suggesting we go back to the earlier way of handling
> aborted tuples separately ? But then we can not do that by simply
> checking for !HeaptupleIsHotUpdated. There could be several aborted
> tuples at the end of the chain of which all but one are marked HotUpdated.
> Or are you suggesting we also check for XMIN_INVALID for detecting
> aborted tuples ?

Yeah.  As the code stands, anything that's XMIN_INVALID will be
considered not-HotUpdated (look at the macro...).  So far I've seen no
place where there is any value in following a HOT chain past such a
tuple --- do you see any?  Every descendant tuple must be XMIN_INVALID
as well ...

            regards, tom lane

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