On 2026-May-14, Amit Kapila wrote:
> The broader issue is that the entire logical decoding mechanism is
> designed to process cluster-wide transactions. This patch tries to
> bypass that foundational assumption, but only during the initial
> snapshot construction while processing running_xacts record.
>
> To be clear, I am not against the idea of db-specific snapshots to
> enable concurrent repacks. My concern is simply the time required to
> get the architecture right. In its current state, we need more time to
> carefully consider how this db-specific concept interacts with the
> rest of the logical decoding machinery, which is built for
> cluster-wide records.
Hmm. So at this point I have to admit that the time I'll have before
beta 1 is going to be very scarce. You're probably right that it's
better to revert db-specific snapshots in pg19, and try again for 20.
The revert should be a simple patch.
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