Is cachedFetchXidStatus provably valid? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Merlin Moncure
Subject Is cachedFetchXidStatus provably valid?
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It's probably an academic concern, but what happens if a backend saves
off cachedFetchXidStatus and then sleeps for a very long time.  During
that time an xid wraparound happens and the backend wakes up and
happens to read another unhinted tuple with the same xid and a
different commit status.  This is obviously incredibly unlikely, but
shouldn't cachedFetchXid be cleared at some appropriate point --
perhaps end of transaction?

merlin


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