Simon Riggs wrote:
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 22:24 +0530, Pavan Deolasee wrote:
Just when I thought we have nailed down CREATE INDEX, I realized
that there something more to worry. The problem is with the HOT-chains
created by our own transaction which is creating the index. We thought
it will be enough to index the tuple at the head-of-the-chain since
that
would be the visible copy once the transaction commits. We thought
of keeping the index unavailable for queries in pre-existing
transactions
by setting a new "xid" attribute in pg_index. The question is what
value
to assign to "xid". I though we would assign ReadNewTransactionId().
>
If you are indexing a table that hasn't just been created by you, set
the xcreate field on pg_index at the *end* of the build using
ReadNewTransactionId(). Any xid less than that sees the index as
invalid. If you created the table in this transaction (i.e.
createSubId != 0) then set xcreate to creating xid.
Couldn't you store the creating transaction's xid in pg_index, and
let other transaction check that against their snapshot like they
would for any tuple's xmin or xmax? (With one exception - the creating
transaction would consider indices it built itself invalid, which
is not how things usually work for xmin/xmax).
This would mean that any transaction that believes that the creating
transaction has committed also consideres the index to be valid.
greetings, Florian Pflug
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