Improve snapshot manager by keeping explicit track of snapshots.
authorAlvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Mon, 12 May 2008 20:02:02 +0000 (20:02 +0000)
committerAlvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Mon, 12 May 2008 20:02:02 +0000 (20:02 +0000)
commit9ba01a2950979fc152657a9255875c07740f8315
tree35970fba35b95c750bd6251865d87f04c55b42b0
parent30bfe069b82c5a04fb69add1aa9654df9f5f72fa
Improve snapshot manager by keeping explicit track of snapshots.

There are two ways to track a snapshot: there's the "registered" list, which
is used for arbitrary long-lived snapshots; and there's the "active stack",
which is used for the snapshot that is considered "active" at any time.
This also allows users of snapshots to stop worrying about snapshot memory
allocation and freeing, and about using PG_TRY blocks around ActiveSnapshot
assignment.  This is all done automatically now.

As a consequence, this allows us to reset MyProc->xmin when there are no
more snapshots registered in the current backend, reducing the impact that
long-running transactions have on VACUUM.
27 files changed:
src/backend/access/transam/xact.c
src/backend/catalog/index.c
src/backend/commands/cluster.c
src/backend/commands/copy.c
src/backend/commands/explain.c
src/backend/commands/indexcmds.c
src/backend/commands/portalcmds.c
src/backend/commands/prepare.c
src/backend/commands/trigger.c
src/backend/commands/vacuum.c
src/backend/commands/variable.c
src/backend/executor/execMain.c
src/backend/executor/functions.c
src/backend/executor/spi.c
src/backend/storage/ipc/procarray.c
src/backend/storage/large_object/inv_api.c
src/backend/tcop/fastpath.c
src/backend/tcop/postgres.c
src/backend/tcop/pquery.c
src/backend/utils/adt/ri_triggers.c
src/backend/utils/adt/txid.c
src/backend/utils/cache/plancache.c
src/backend/utils/time/snapmgr.c
src/include/storage/procarray.h
src/include/utils/snapmgr.h
src/include/utils/snapshot.h
src/pl/plpgsql/src/pl_exec.c