Ken Hirsch wrote:
> From: "Bruce Momjian" <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
> > And finally, I must abort tuple changes made by the aborted
> > subtransaction. One way of doing that is to keep all relation id's
> > modified by the transaction, and do a sequential scan of the tables on
> > abort, changing the transaction id's to a fixed aborted transaction id.
> > However, this could be slow. (We could store tids if only a few rows
> > are updated by a subtransaction. That would speed it up considerably.)
>
> Are you sure you don't want to use the log for this? It does mean that the
> log can grow without bound for long-lived transactions, but it's very
> straightforward and fast.
I don't think we want to have unlimited log file growth for long running
transactions/subtransactions.
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