On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 12:53 +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> It looks like the standby tries to remove XID 4323 from the
> known-assigned hash table, but it's not there because it was removed
> and set in pg_subtrans by an XLOG_XACT_ASSIGNMENT record earlier. I
> guess we should just not throw an error in that case, but is there a
> way we could catch that narrow case and still keep the check in
> KnownAssignedXidsRemove()? It seems like the check might help catch
> other bugs, so I'd rather keep it if possible.
Yes, a certain test is important and I'm glad we've (almost) achieved
it.
ISTM we can say if not in KnownAssignedXids then check pg_subtrans. If
not in either then report error. May need to add info to the abort
record to check xtop also.
-- Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com