On Jun21, 2012, at 13:41 , Andres Freund wrote: > 3b) > Ensure that enough information in the catalog remains by fudging the xmin > horizon. Then reassemble an appropriate snapshot to read the catalog as the > tuple in question has seen it.
The ComboCID machinery makes that quite a bit harder, I fear. If a tuple is updated multiple times by the same transaction, you cannot decide whether a tuple was visible in a certain snapshot unless you have access to the updating backend's ComboCID hash. best regards, Florian Pflug -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers