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From: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Race conditions in logical decoding
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2026 07:33:32 +0100
Message-ID: <3805.1769150012@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]> wrote:

> I think this algorithm is strange -- if you do have to wait more than
> once for one transaction, it would lead to doing the
> TransactionIdDidCommit again times for _all_ transactions by starting
> the inner loop from scratch, which sounds really wasteful.  Why not nest
> the for() loops the other way around?

I'm quite sure I wanted to iterate through committed.xnt in the outer loop,
but probably got distracted by something else and messed things up.

> Something like this perhaps,
> 
>     for (int i = 0; i < builder->committed.xcnt; i++)
>     {
>         for (;;)
>         {
>             if (TransactionIdDidCommit(builder->committed.xip[i]))
>                 break;
>             else
>             {
>                 (void) WaitLatch(MyLatch,
>                                  WL_LATCH_SET, WL_TIMEOUT, WL_EXIT_ON_PM_DEATH,
>                                  10L,
>                                  WAIT_EVENT_SNAPBUILD_CLOG);
>                 ResetLatch(MyLatch);
>             }
>             CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS();
>         }
>     }
> 
> This way you wait repeatedly for one transaction until it is marked
> committed; and once it does, you don't test it again.

Sure, that's much beter. Thanks.

-- 
Antonin Houska
Web: https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com






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