[HACKERS] Rome university

2006-05-02 Thread letizia leo
Hi,We're a team from Rome University (Italy) and we are working on an hacking of PostgreSQL MVCC. The basic idea is to have multiple instances of a same user transaction concurrently executing against the DB in order to achieve fault tolerance. We do not want to bother you with the details

Re: [HACKERS] Rome university

2006-05-02 Thread Alvaro Herrera
letizia leo wrote: and the doubt is the following: how is it possible that -line 144- Xmin is the current transaction ( i.e. it has created this tuple, it is holding an exclusive lock on it since it has not committed yet) and that -line 149- there is a different (?) transaction that is

Re: [HACKERS] Rome university

2006-05-02 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 04:31:14PM +0200, letizia leo wrote: snip and the doubt is the following: how is it possible that -line 144- Xmin is the current transaction ( i.e. it has created this tuple, it is holding an exclusive lock on it since it has not committed yet) and that -line