Re: Improving connection scalability: GetSnapshotData()

On 2020-Aug-16, Peter Geoghegan wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 2:11 PM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> > For the first, one issue is that there's no obviously good candidate for
> > an uninitialized xid. We could use something like FrozenTransactionId,
> > which may never be in the procarray. But it's not exactly pretty.
> 
> Maybe it would make sense to mark the fields as inaccessible or
> undefined to Valgrind. That has advantages and disadvantages that are
> obvious.

... and perhaps making Valgrind complain about it is sufficient.

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