latestCompletedXid
Started by Simon Riggsover 17 years ago2 messages
Currently, we advance latestCompletedXid during
ProcArrayEndTransaction() for both commits and aborts.
If a transaction aborts, its effects are invisible to us just the same
as if the transaction is still running.
ISTM that we need not move latestCompletedXid as a result of an abort.
Only a commit could change what we see as visible.
This must be true, because if a backend had a FATAL error but yet exited
before it ran ProcArrayEndTransaction() we would not move
latestCompletedXid forward either.
Avoiding this will make snapshots smaller in some cases, but it's really
just a correctness thing.
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