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From: Amit Kapila <[email protected]>
To: Jan Wieck <[email protected]>
Cc: Zhijie Hou (Fujitsu) <[email protected]>
Cc: Aleksander Alekseev <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <[email protected]>
Cc: shveta malik <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Commit Timestamp and LSN Inversion issue
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2024 15:21:47 +0530
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On Thu, Nov 7, 2024 at 9:39 PM Jan Wieck <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 11/6/24 21:30, Zhijie Hou (Fujitsu) wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for the patch! I am reading the patch and noticed few minor things.
> >
> > 1.
> > +     /*
> > +      * This is a local transaction. Make sure that the xact_time
> > +      * higher than any timestamp we have seen thus far.
> > +      *
> > +      * TODO: This is not postmaster restart safe. If the local
> > +      * system clock is further behind other nodes than it takes
> > +      * for the postmaster to restart (time between it stops
> > +      * accepting new transactions and time when it becomes ready
> > +      * to accept new transactions), local transactions will not
> > +      * be bumped into the future correctly.
> > +      */
> >
> > The TODO section mentions other nodes, but I believe think patch currently do
> > not have the handling of timestamps for other nodes. Should we either remove
> > this part or add a brief explanation to clarify the relationship with other
> > nodes?
>
> That TODO is actually obsolete. I understood from Amit Kapila that the
> community does assume that NTP synchronization is good enough.
>

This is my understanding from the relevant discussion in the email thread [1].

[1] - https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/2423650.1726842094%40sss.pgh.pa.us
-- 
With Regards,
Amit Kapila.






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