On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 2:45 PM Ashutosh Bapat
<ashutosh.ba...@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>
> The name of the function suggests that the given message will be queued in 
> ReorderBuffer. The prologue of the function says so too
>  776 /*
>  777  * Queue message into a transaction so it can be processed upon commit.
>  778  */
> It led me to think that a non-transactional message is processed along with 
> the surrounding transaction, esp. when it has an associated xid.
>
> But in reality, the function queues only a transactional message and decoders 
> a non-transactional message immediately without waiting for a commit.
>
> We should modify the prologue to say
> "Queue a transactional message into a transaction so that it can be processed 
> upon commit. A non-transactional message is processed immediately." and also 
> change the name of the function to ReorderBufferProcessMessage(), but the 
> later may break API compatibility.
>

+1 for the comment change but I am not sure if it is a good idea to
change the API name.

-- 
With Regards,
Amit Kapila.


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