On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 3:06 AM, Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> The reason for that is that when we do the AtEO(Sub)?Xact_Inval(), we've
> already done a RecordTransactionAbort(true|false) and
> CurrentTransactionState->state = TRANS_ABORT. So the visibility routines
> have enough information to consider rows created by the aborted
> transaction as invisible.
>
> I am not really happy with the RelationReloadIndexInfo()s in
> RelationClearRelation() when we're in an aborted state, especially as
> the comment surrounding them are clearly out of date, but I don't see a
> bug there anymore.
How can it be safe to try to read catalogs if the transaction is aborted?
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