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From: David G. Johnston <[email protected]>
To: Subramanian,Ramachandran <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Trying to understand Tuple Header
Date: Sun, 3 May 2026 12:48:47 -0700
Message-ID: <CAKFQuwbRKbjk4JPefgT6s64hN-i47a1nZO6O4j-+h48er6uyvw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Sun, May 3, 2026 at 12:25 PM Subramanian,Ramachandran <
[email protected]> wrote:

> The binary value of t_infomask for both the tuples are identical, but they
> produce different column values for xmin_commited, xmin_aborted ….  in the
> SQL  !!!.
>
>
>
> Am I not seeing something that is obvious?
>

You didn't re-check the infomask data after running the select query,
instead assuming the bits didn't change.  They did.  SELECT is not a
read-only operation, it participates in optimizations.  Called "writing
hint bits".  Manually evaluating the various tests against the data you did
show would have proven that the pre-select-data had zeros where the second
query claims there are ones.

David J.


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