Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> But the patch changes things so that *everyone* excludes the vacuum from
>> their xmin. Or at least I thought that was the plan.
> We shouldn't do that, because that Xmin is also used to truncate
> SUBTRANS.
Yeah, but you were going to change that, no? Truncating SUBTRANS will
need to include the vacuum xact's xmin, but we don't need it for any
other purpose.
> but it means
> lazy vacuum will never be able to use subtransactions.
This patch already depends on the assumption that lazy vacuum will never
do any transactional updates, so I don't see what it would need
subtransactions for.
regards, tom lane
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