On 1 December 2012 23:10, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
>> So barring objections, I'm going to remove LogStandbySnapshot's behavior
>> of returning the updated nextXid.
>
> I don't see any reason why it would be bad to remove this. I think the
> current behaviour could actually even delay getting to an active state
> slightly in the presence of prepared transactions because its used to
> create to initialize the KnownAssignedXid machinery in xlog_redo. If the
> prepared xacts are suboverflown its a *good* thing to have an old
> ->nextXid.
That particular coding was pretty weird. Please change.
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