Re: [HACKERS] Lazy hash table for XidInMVCCSnapshot (helps Zipfian a bit) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 7:41 AM, Yura Sokolov <funny.falcon@gmail.com> wrote:
> 08.03.2018 03:42, Tomas Vondra пишет:
>> One reason against building the hash table in GetSnapshotData is that
>> we'd build it even when the snapshot is never queried. Or when it is
>> queried, but we only need to check xmin/xmax.
>
> Thank you for analyze, Tomas.
>
> Stephen is right about bug in snapmgr.c
> Attached version fixes bug, and also simplifies XidInXip a bit.
>

@@ -2167,8 +2175,7 @@ RestoreSnapshot(char *start_address)
  /* Copy SubXIDs, if present. */
  if (serialized_snapshot.subxcnt > 0)
  {
- snapshot->subxip = ((TransactionId *) (snapshot + 1)) +
- serialized_snapshot.xcnt;
+ snapshot->subxip = ((TransactionId *) (snapshot + 1)) + xcnt;
  memcpy(snapshot->subxip, serialized_xids + serialized_snapshot.xcnt,
    serialized_snapshot.subxcnt * sizeof(TransactionId));
  }


It is not clear why you want to change this in RestoreSnapshot when
nothing related is changed in SerializeSnapshot?  Can you please add
some comments to clarify it?

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With Regards,
Amit Kapila.
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