* Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2010, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
* Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
*
- * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c,v 1.432 2010/08/26 19:23:41 alvherre Exp $
+ * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c,v 1.433 2010/08/30 14:22:05 sriggs Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
}
/*
- * Currently, there is no need to truncate pg_subtrans during recovery. If
- * we did do that, we will need to have called StartupSUBTRANS() already
- * and then TruncateSUBTRANS() would go here.
+ * Truncate pg_subtrans if possible. We can throw away all data before
+ * the oldest XMIN of any running transaction. No future transaction will
+ * attempt to reference any pg_subtrans entry older than that (see Asserts
+ * in subtrans.c). When hot standby is disabled, though, we mustn't do
+ * this because StartupSUBTRANS hasn't been called yet.
*/
+ if (EnableHotStandby)
+ TruncateSUBTRANS(GetOldestXmin(true, false));
/* All real work is done, but log before releasing lock. */
if (log_checkpoints)