On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 02:00:30PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > I had an idea about how to make this cleaner and faster at > the same time. Make all snapshots be real pointers to > SnapshotData structures (except InvalidSnapshot, which remains > an alias for NULL). Add a struct field that is a pointer to > the satifies function for the snapshot type. Then > HeapTupleSatisfiesVisibility reduces to something like > > ((*(snapshot)->satisfies) ((tuple)->t_data, snapshot, buffer)) > > which ought to be faster than it is now. We could also add > an "mvcc" bool field to simplify IsMVCCSnapshot() --- or just > make it test the contents of the satisfies-function field.
Sounds like a winner. Essentially snapshots becomes objects that have methods you can use to interact with them. Make a new shapshot type, most of the code doesn't need to care. So yep, good idea. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to > litigate.
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