Re: obtaining row locking information

On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 09:19:24PM +0900, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
> > Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp> writes:
> > > To accomplish this I need to add following function into
> > > storage/ipc/procarray.c. This is similar to BackendPidGetProc() except
> > > that it accepts xid as an argument. Any objection?

I don't think it is critical for it to return valid answers for
subtransactions, but maybe you should add a note in the commentary about
it:

> /*
>  * BackendXidGetPid -- get a backend's pid given its XID
>  *
>  * Returns 0 if not found or it's a prepared transaction.  Note that
>  * it is up to the caller to be sure that the question remains
>  * meaningful for long enough for the answer to be used ...  *   * Only main transaction Ids are considered.  This
functionis mainly  * useful for determining what backend owns a lock.
 
>  */
> int
> BackendXidGetPid(TransactionId xid)
> {

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