On Tue, May 7, 2024 at 9:51 AM Ashutosh Bapat
<ashutosh.bapat.oss@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, May 7, 2024 at 12:00 AM Christophe Pettus <xof@thebuild.com> wrote:
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>> Thank you for the reply!
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>> > On May 1, 2024, at 02:18, Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat.oss@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Is there a large transaction which is failing to be replicated repeatedly - timeouts, crashes on upstream or
downstream?
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>> AFAIK, no, although I am doing this somewhat by remote control (I don't have direct access to the failing system).
Thisdid bring up one other question, though:
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>> Are subtransactions written to their own individual reorder buffers (and thus potentially spill files), or are they
appendedto the topmost transaction's reorder buffer?
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> IIRC, they have their own RB,
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Right.
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but once they commit, they are transferred to topmost transaction's RB.
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I don't think they are transferred to topmost transaction's RB. We
perform a k-way merge between transactions/subtransactions to retrieve
the changes. See comments: "Support for efficiently iterating over a
transaction's and its subtransactions' changes..." in reorderbuffer.c
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With Regards,
Amit Kapila.