On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 12:57:36PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 12:40 PM, Noah Misch <n...@leadboat.com> wrote:
> +         * fresh transaction.  No part of core PostgreSQL functions that way,
> +         * though it's a fair thing to want.  Such code would wish the portal

> From the point of view of core code, this stands true, but, for my 2c,
> honestly, I think that is just going to annoy more people working on
> plugins and forks of Postgres. When working on Postgres-XC and
> developing stuff for the core code, I recall having been annoyed a
> couple of times by similar assert limitations

At first, I left out that assertion in case some extension code did the thing
I described, perhaps in a background worker.  I then realized that
MarkPortalFailed() is the wrong thing for such code, which would want
treatment similar to this bit of PreCommit_Portals():

                /*
                 * Do not touch active portals --- this can only happen in the 
case of
                 * a multi-transaction utility command, such as VACUUM.
                 *
                 * Note however that any resource owner attached to such a 
portal is
                 * still going to go away, so don't leave a dangling pointer.
                 */
                if (portal->status == PORTAL_ACTIVE)
                {
                        portal->resowner = NULL;
                        continue;
                }

If you can think of a case where the code would work okay despite its active
portal being marked as failed, that would be a good reason to omit the one
assertion.  Otherwise, an assertion seems better than silently doing the
known-wrong thing.


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