"Florian G. Pflug" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Couldn't you store the creating transaction's xid in pg_index, and > let other transaction check that against their snapshot like they > would for any tuple's xmin or xmax?
What snapshot? I keep having to remind people that system catalog operations are SnapshotNow. In the particular context here, the place where doing something else would break down is that the planner has no idea when it makes a plan what snapshot(s) the plan might later be used with. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings