On 18.01.2011 07:15, Jim Nasby wrote:
> Shouldn't the comment read "If first time through"?
>
> /*
> * If not first time through, get workspace to remember main XIDs in. We
> * malloc it permanently to avoid repeated palloc/pfree overhead.
> */
> if (xids == NULL)
> {
> ...
> xids = (TransactionId *) malloc(maxxids * sizeof(TransactionId));
Huh, yes, I'm amazed that no-one have noticed. I must've read that piece
of code dozens of times in the last couple of years myself, and that
sentence was even copy-pasted to GetConflictingVirtualXIDs() later in
that file, including that thinko.
Thanks, fixed both copies.
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