Ken Hirsch wrote:
> From: "Bruce Momjian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > And finally, I must abort tuple changes made by the aborted
> > subtransaction.  One way of doing that is to keep all relation id's
> > modified by the transaction, and do a sequential scan of the tables on
> > abort, changing the transaction id's to a fixed aborted transaction id.
> > However, this could be slow.  (We could store tids if only a few rows
> > are updated by a subtransaction.  That would speed it up considerably.)
> 
> Are you sure you don't want to use the log for this?  It does mean that the
> log can grow without bound for long-lived transactions, but it's very
> straightforward and fast.

I don't think we want to have unlimited log file growth for long running
transactions/subtransactions.

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