Re: [WIP] The relminxid addition, try 3 - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: [WIP] The relminxid addition, try 3
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Msg-id 28877.1147115299@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: [WIP] The relminxid addition, try 3  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Ah, there's another reason, and it's that I'm rewriting the tuple in
> place, not calling heap_update.

Is that really a good idea, as compared to using heap_update?

(Now, if you're combining this with the very grotty relpages/reltuples
update code, then I'm all for making that xlog properly --- we've gotten
away without it so far but it really should xlog the change.)

            regards, tom lane

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