Re: Bogus assertion in multixact.c?

Never mind. multi is in effect a TransactionId in that code path, and thus 
the assertion makes sense. Sorry for the noise.

On Tue, 3 May 2005, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:

> There's an assertion in multixact.c, MultiXactIdExpand function, line 273:
>
>       Assert(!TransactionIdEquals(multi, xid));
>
> where multi is a MultiXactId and xid is a TransactionId.
>
> Isn't this bogus? If I understand the code correctly, multixactids and 
> regular xids live in completely separate id spaces. Therefore a comparison 
> between them makes no sense.
>
> - Heikki
>

- Heikki