* Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> I committed this with a couple of changes:
Great, thanks!
> * I used GetLatestSnapshot rather than GetTransactionSnapshot. Since
> we don't allow these operations inside transaction blocks, there
> shouldn't be much difference, but in principle GetTransactionSnapshot
> is the wrong thing; in a serializable transaction it could be quite old.
Makes sense.
> * After reviewing the other uses of SnapshotNow in dbcommands.c, I
> decided we'd better make the same type of change in remove_dbtablespaces
> and check_db_file_conflict, because those are likewise doing filesystem
> operations on the strength of what they find in pg_tablespace.
Thanks for that. I had noticed the other places where we were using
SnapshotNow, but I hadn't run down if they needed to be changed or not.
> I also ended up deciding to back-patch to 8.3 as well.
Excellent, thanks again.
Stephen
