On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 11:25 PM, Craig Ringer <cr...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > What I'd really like is to be able to ask transam.c to handle the > xid_in_recent_past logic, treating an attempt to read an xid from > beyond the clog truncation threshold as a soft error indicating > unknown xact state. But that involves delving into slru.c, and I > really, really don't want to touch that for what should be a simple > and pretty noninvasive utility function.
I think you're going to have to bite the bullet and do that, though, because ... > A PG_TRY to trap ERRCODE_UNDEFINED_FILE seems like it'd be sufficient, ...I don't think this has any chance of being acceptable. You can't catch errors and not re-throw them. That's bad news. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
