On 10 March 2016 at 20:36, Thomas Munro <thomas.mu...@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 8:50 AM, Simon Riggs <si...@2ndquadrant.com> > wrote: > > On 3 February 2016 at 23:12, Thomas Munro <thomas.mu...@enterprisedb.com > > > > wrote: > > > >> > >> It quacks suspiciously like a bug. > > > > > > Agreed > > > > What's more important is that is very publicly a bug in the eyes of > others > > and should be fixed and backpatched soon. > > > > We have a maintenance release coming in a couple of weeks and I'd like to > > see this in there. > > As I understand it, the approach I've taken here can't be backpatched > because it changes the aminsert_function interface (it needs the > current snapshot when inserting), so I was proposing this as an > improvement for 9.6. I guess there are other way to get the right > snapshot into btinsert (and thence _bt_check_unique), but I didn't > think it would be very classy to introduce a 'current snapshot' global > variable to smuggle it in. > But this is a Serializable transaction, so it only has one snapshot... This is where adding comments on patch theory would help. -- Simon Riggs http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ <http://www.2ndquadrant.com/> PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services