Re: Serializable Snapshot Isolation

On 17/09/10 14:56, Kevin Grittner wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas  wrote:
>> Why not use SubTransGetTopmostTransaction() ?
>
> This needs to work when the xid of a transaction is found in the MVCC
> data of a tuple for any overlapping serializable transaction -- even
> if that transaction has completed and its connection has been
> closed. It didn't look to me like SubTransGetTopmostTransaction()
> would work after the transaction was gone.

You're right, it doesn't retain that old transactions. But it could 
easily be modified to do so.

--   Heikki Linnakangas  EnterpriseDB   http://www.enterprisedb.com