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  1. WiredTiger
  2. WT-4000

Avoid getting two snapshots when setting a read_timestamp

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    • Improvement
    • Status: Closed
    • Major - P3
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • None
    • 3.6.6, 4.0.0-rc0, WT3.1.0
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    • 5
    • Storage Non-NYC 2018-05-07, Storage Non-NYC 2018-05-21

    Description

      In WT-3981 we get a new transaction snapshot when setting a read_timestamp in a running transaction.

      That means this pattern:

      session->begin_transaction("isolation=snapshot")
      session->timestamp_transaction("read_timestamp=X")
      

      calls __wt_txn_get_snapshot twice.

      Find a way to avoid one of the calls (while making sure that the snapshot is current as of the timestamp_transaction call for correctness). Setting a read timestamp is a relatively common case, and getting the snapshot can be expensive when many sessions are active.

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              vamsi.krishna@mongodb.com Vamsi Boyapati
              michael.cahill@mongodb.com Michael Cahill (Inactive)
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