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authorAlvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>2014-11-28 18:06:18 -0300
committerAlvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>2014-11-28 18:06:18 -0300
commitae04bf50277ae25ca741cf3322d231c7dfb4c997 (patch)
tree2c93bfa97ff8090f25888216eb822c0a07b687fb
parentd25367ec4f869aac80e97964fa5d7143536818b1 (diff)
downloadpostgresql-ae04bf50277ae25ca741cf3322d231c7dfb4c997.tar.gz
Update transaction README for persistent multixacts
Multixacts are now maintained during recovery, but the README didn't get the memo. Backpatch to 9.3, where the divergence was introduced.
-rw-r--r--src/backend/access/transam/README5
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/access/transam/README b/src/backend/access/transam/README
index ba6ae05d65..b619de5ad3 100644
--- a/src/backend/access/transam/README
+++ b/src/backend/access/transam/README
@@ -840,10 +840,7 @@ parent transaction to complete.
Not all transactional behaviour is emulated, for example we do not insert
a transaction entry into the lock table, nor do we maintain the transaction
-stack in memory. Clog entries are made normally. Multixact is not maintained
-because its purpose is to record tuple level locks that an application has
-requested to prevent other tuple locks. Since tuple locks cannot be obtained at
-all, there is never any conflict and so there is no reason to update multixact.
+stack in memory. Clog and multixact entries are made normally.
Subtrans is maintained during recovery but the details of the transaction
tree are ignored and all subtransactions reference the top-level TransactionId
directly. Since commit is atomic this provides correct lock wait behaviour