On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Um ... you're supposing that only DDL uses SnapshotNow, which is wrong.
> I refer you to the parser, the planner, execution functions for arrays,
> records, enums, any sort of relcache reload, etc etc etc.  Yes, some
> of that is masked by backend-internal caching, some of the time, but
> it's folly to just assume that there are no SnapshotNow scans during
> normal queries.

Hmm.  That's unfortunate, because it seems difficult to construct a
test case that will exercise every feature in the system.

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