Florian Pflug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> I think txid_current_snapshot should read ActiveSnapshot. If the user wants >> to get a beginning-of-xact rather than beginning-of-statement snapshot from >> it, he should be required to call it in a serializable transaction.
> Hm... does txid require that the snapshot it uses a valid in the sense that > its xmin follows OldestXmin? If not, we could keep the snapshot around for > txid, > but still update our published xmin - which seems to be the main reason we > care > about getting rid of old snapshots at all. Why should we complicate the main code like that for txid? I have not heard any argument why the function should be examining SerializableSnapshot instead of the current transaction snapshot. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings