On 2020-Sep-14, Andres Freund wrote:
> It seems pretty dangerous to me. What exactly are you going to put into
> xmin/xmax here? And how would anything you put into the first tuple not
> break index lookups? There's no such thing as a frozen xmax (so far), so
> what are you going to put in there? A random different xid?
> FrozenTransactionId? HEAP_XMAX_INVALID?
>
> This whole approach just seems likely to exascerbate corruption while
> also making it impossible to debug. That's ok enough if it's an explicit
> user action, but doing it based on a config variable setting seems
> absurdly dangerous to me.
FWIW I agree with Andres' stance on this. The current system is *very*
complicated and bugs are obscure already. If we hide them, what we'll
be getting is a system where data can become corrupted for no apparent
reason.
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