Re: MultiXacts & WAL - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Heikki Linnakangas
Subject Re: MultiXacts & WAL
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Msg-id Pine.OSF.4.61.0606170914060.231307@kosh.hut.fi
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In response to MultiXacts & WAL  (paolo romano <paolo.romano@yahoo.it>)
Responses Re: MultiXacts & WAL  (paolo romano <paolo.romano@yahoo.it>)
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On Sat, 17 Jun 2006, paolo romano wrote:

> May be this is needed to support savepoints/subtransactions? Or is it 
> something else that i am missing?

It's for two-phase commit. A prepared transaction can hold locks that need 
to be recovered.

- Heikki


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