Github user anew commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/incubator-tephra/pull/22#discussion_r91990644 --- Diff: tephra-core/src/main/java/org/apache/tephra/util/TxUtils.java --- @@ -163,8 +167,22 @@ public static long getPruneUpperBound(Transaction tx) { long maxInvalidTx = tx.getInvalids().length > 0 ? tx.getInvalids()[tx.getInvalids().length - 1] : Transaction.NO_TX_IN_PROGRESS; + + // An invalid transaction can be used up to its max lifetime for data writes, hence we cannot prune an invalid + // transaction until it exhausts its max lifetime. + long elapsedTime = currentTimeMillis - TxUtils.getTimestamp(maxInvalidTx); + long invalidTxBound; + if (elapsedTime > txMaxLifetimeMillis) { + // maxInvalidTx is past its max lifetime + invalidTxBound = maxInvalidTx; + } else { + // Reduce the lifetime of maxInvalidTx, so that it cannot be used for any more writes + long remainingTime = txMaxLifetimeMillis - elapsedTime; + invalidTxBound = maxInvalidTx - remainingTime * TxConstants.MAX_TX_PER_MS - 1; --- End diff -- agreed.
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