Re: HeapTupleSatisfiesToast not setting XMIN_COMMITTED? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: HeapTupleSatisfiesToast not setting XMIN_COMMITTED?
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Msg-id 28150.1316635361@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to HeapTupleSatisfiesToast not setting XMIN_COMMITTED?  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>)
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> writes:
> I notice that HeapTupleSatisfiesToast is not setting the
> HEAP_XMIN_COMMITTED bit, though it is reading it.  Is there a reason for
> this?  It seems to me that it'd make sense to have it set ... unless
> it's set by some other routine, somehow?

Hmm ... I wonder if that has something to do with the performance
complaints we sometimes get about TOAST.  VACUUM would presumably set
the bit, but in a never-vacuumed toast table this could be a problem.
        regards, tom lane


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