Provide XLogRecGetFullXid().
authorThomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>
Mon, 15 Jul 2019 05:03:46 +0000 (17:03 +1200)
committerThomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>
Mon, 15 Jul 2019 05:04:29 +0000 (17:04 +1200)
commit67b9b3ca328392f9afc4e66fe03564f5fc87feff
tree4297fdc8925b8d36fc413e03cbce0ac79f5ca094
parent5925e5549890416bcf588334d9d0bc99f8ad6c7f
Provide XLogRecGetFullXid().

In order to be able to work with FullTransactionId values during replay
without increasing the size of the WAL, infer the epoch.  In general we
can't do that safely, but during replay we can because we know that
nextFullXid can't advance concurrently.

Prevent frontend code from seeing this new function, due to the above
restriction.  Perhaps in future it will be possible to extract the value
entirely from independent WAL records, and then this restriction can be
lifted.

Author: Thomas Munro, based on earlier code from Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKG%2BmLmuDjMi6o1dxkKvGRL56Y2Rz%2BiXAcrZV03G9ZuFQ8Q%40mail.gmail.com
src/backend/access/transam/xlogreader.c
src/include/access/xlogreader.h