Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> I think we've already milked what we can from that, since a prepared >> xact is treated exactly like an open one with no snapshot. The point >> is that whatever rows it's written are still in-doubt and cannot be >> frozen, so the wraparound horizon cannot advance past its XID.
> But surely that's not "the same" as a backend which is > idle-in-transaction? In that case I think you still need a snapshot? No; at least not unless it's a serializable transaction. That's the point of the snapshot management work that Alvaro did for 8.4. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers