Re: Out-of-date comments about RecentGlobalXmin? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Japin Li
Subject Re: Out-of-date comments about RecentGlobalXmin?
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Msg-id MEYP282MB16693C45D9BB8A93C983C182B67E9@MEYP282MB1669.AUSP282.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM
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In response to Re: Out-of-date comments about RecentGlobalXmin?  (Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>)
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On Tue, 06 Sep 2022 at 16:17, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> wrote:
>> On 6 Sep 2022, at 10:10, Zhang Mingli <zmlpostgres@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sep 6, 2022, 16:03 +0800, Japin Li <japinli@hotmail.com>, wrote:
>
>> It's out-of-date, doesn't it? I'm not sure s/RecentGlobalXmin/RecentXmin/g
>> is right. Any thoughts?
>> I’m afraid not, RecentGlobalXmin is split to several GlobalVis* variables.
>> Need to check one by one.
>
> It's a set of functions actually and not variables IIRC.
>
> It's worth looking at the entire comment and not just the grep output though,
> as these three places share the exact same comment.  Note the second paragraph:
>
>     /*
>      * Start a new transaction here before first access to db, and get a
>      * snapshot.  We don't have a use for the snapshot itself, but we're
>      * interested in the secondary effect that it sets RecentGlobalXmin. (This
>      * is critical for anything that reads heap pages, because HOT may decide
>      * to prune them even if the process doesn't attempt to modify any
>      * tuples.)
>      *
>      * FIXME: This comment is inaccurate / the code buggy. A snapshot that is
>      * not pushed/active does not reliably prevent HOT pruning (->xmin could
>      * e.g. be cleared when cache invalidations are processed).
>      */
>
> This was added in dc7420c2c92 which removed RecentGlobalXmin, addressing that
> FIXME would of course be very welcome.

My bad!  Thanks for pointing out this.

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Japin Li.
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