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. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers