Re: Lazy xid assignment V4 - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Lazy xid assignment V4
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Msg-id 18702.1189011363@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Lazy xid assignment V4  ("Florian G. Pflug" <fgp@phlo.org>)
Responses Re: Lazy xid assignment V4  (Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>)
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"Florian G. Pflug" <fgp@phlo.org> writes:
> However, none of these are very strong reasons - certainly weaker than
> doing what ensures to cause the least confusion. I'm therefore
> starting to think that we should remove transaction, and keep the name
> virtualtransaction for the VXID. That will ensure that clients who
> *do* rely on pg_locks and the "transaction" column (which will be few,
> I guess) at least fail early and visibly, instead of producing bogus
> results...

Barring other objections, I'll do it that way.

            regards, tom lane

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