While working on the issue [1], I realize that if a subtransaction hasn't done any catalog change then we don't add this in the commit xid list even if we are building a full snapshot [2]. That means when we will convert this to the MVCC snapshot we will add this to a running xid list. If my understanding is correct then how visibility will work? Because if I look at the code in XidInMVCCSnapshot(), then if the suboverflowed is not set then first we are going to look into the snapshot->subxip array and if we don't find it there then we look into the snapshot->xip array, and now we will be finding even committed subxips in the snapshot->xip array. Am I missing something?
[2] /* * Add subtransaction to base snapshot if catalog modifying, we don't * distinguish to toplevel transactions there. */ if (ReorderBufferXidHasCatalogChanges(builder->reorder, subxid)) { sub_needs_timetravel = true; needs_snapshot = true; [3] [1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAFiTN-tqopqpfS6HHug2nnOGieJJ_nm-Nvy0WBZ%3DZpo-LqtSJA%40mail.gmail.com -- Regards, Dilip Kumar EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com