On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 4:37 PM, Simon Riggs <si...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > So when you say "Only the top frame of the transaction state stack is > copied" you don't mean the top, you mean the bottom (the latest > subxact)? Which then becomes the top in the parallel worker? OK...
The item most recently added to the stack is properly called the top, but I guess it's confusing in this case because the item on the bottom of the stack is referred to as the TopTransaction. I'll see if I can rephrase that. > Those comments really belong in a README, not the first visible > comment in xact.c OK. > You need to start with the explanation that parallel workers have a > faked-up xact stack to make it easier to copy and manage. That is > valid because we never change xact state during a worker operation. OK. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers