Re: Read-only access to temp tables for 2PC transactions - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: Read-only access to temp tables for 2PC transactions
Date
Msg-id 20190524170921.xzrofve2jh5zyfwx@alap3.anarazel.de
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: Read-only access to temp tables for 2PC transactions  (Konstantin Knizhnik <k.knizhnik@postgrespro.ru>)
Responses Re: Read-only access to temp tables for 2PC transactions
List pgsql-hackers
Hi,

On 2019-05-24 19:37:15 +0300, Konstantin Knizhnik wrote:
> From my point of view releasing all temporary table locks after preparing of
> 2PC transaction is not technically possible:
> assume that this transaction has  updated some tuples of temporary table - them
> are not visible to other transactions until 2PC is committed,
> but since lock is removed, other transactions can update the same tuple.

I don't think tuple level actions are the problem? Those doesn't require
table level locks to be held.

Generally, I fail to see how locks themselves are the problem. The
problem are the catalog entries for the temp table, the relation forks,
and the fact that a session basically couldn't drop (and if created in
that transaction, use) etc the temp table after the PREPARE.

Greetings,

Andres Freund



pgsql-hackers by date:

Previous
From: Joe Conway
Date:
Subject: Re: Excessive memory usage in multi-statement queries w/ partitioning
Next
From: Pavel Stehule
Date:
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] proposal: schema variables