On 2019-Dec-29, Tomas Vondra wrote: > On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 04:46:18PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > > > This patch changes xact.c to avoid updating transaction start timestamps > > for walsenders (maybe more commentary is desirable). I think logical > > decoding is just a special form of walsender and thus it would also be > > updated by this patch, unless I misunderstood what Tomas explained. > > > > It's true walsender should not be doing any read-write transactions or > executing statements (well, maybe a decoding plugin could, but using > historic snapshot). > > So I agree not leaving xact_start for walsender processes seems OK.
OK, I pushed my patch to branches 10 - master. (See https://postgr.es/m/20200107211624.GA18974@alvherre.pgsql ) -- Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
