Use FullTransactionId for the transaction stack.

Provide GetTopFullTransactionId() and GetCurrentFullTransactionId().
The intended users of these interfaces are access methods that use
xids for visibility checks but don't want to have to go back and
"freeze" existing references some time later before the 32 bit xid
counter wraps around.

Use a new struct to serialize the transaction state for parallel
query, because FullTransactionId doesn't fit into the previous
serialization scheme very well.

Author: Thomas Munro
Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1%2BMv%2Bmb0HFfWM9Srtc6MVe160WFurXV68iAFMcagRZ0dQ%40mail.gmail.com

src/backend/access/transam/varsup.c

@@ -35,7 +35,8 @@ VariableCache ShmemVariableCache = NULL;
 
 
 /*
- * Allocate the next XID for a new transaction or subtransaction.
+ * Allocate the next FullTransactionId for a new transaction or
+ * subtransaction.
  *
  * The new XID is also stored into MyPgXact before returning.
  *
@@ -44,9 +45,10 @@ VariableCache ShmemVariableCache = NULL;
  * does something.  So it is safe to do a database lookup if we want to
  * issue a warning about XID wrap.
  */
-TransactionId
+FullTransactionId
 GetNewTransactionId(bool isSubXact)
 {
+	FullTransactionId full_xid;
 	TransactionId xid;
 
 	/*
@@ -64,7 +66,7 @@ GetNewTransactionId(bool isSubXact)
 	{
 		Assert(!isSubXact);
 		MyPgXact->xid = BootstrapTransactionId;
-		return BootstrapTransactionId;
+		return FullTransactionIdFromEpochAndXid(0, BootstrapTransactionId);
 	}
 
 	/* safety check, we should never get this far in a HS standby */
@@ -73,7 +75,8 @@ GetNewTransactionId(bool isSubXact)
 
 	LWLockAcquire(XidGenLock, LW_EXCLUSIVE);
 
-	xid = XidFromFullTransactionId(ShmemVariableCache->nextFullXid);
+	full_xid = ShmemVariableCache->nextFullXid;
+	xid = XidFromFullTransactionId(full_xid);
 
 	/*----------
 	 * Check to see if it's safe to assign another XID.  This protects against
@@ -232,7 +235,7 @@ GetNewTransactionId(bool isSubXact)
 
 	LWLockRelease(XidGenLock);
 
-	return xid;
+	return full_xid;
 }
 
 /*

src/include/access/transam.h

@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@
 #define U64FromFullTransactionId(x)		((x).value)
 #define FullTransactionIdPrecedes(a, b)	((a).value < (b).value)
 #define FullTransactionIdIsValid(x)		TransactionIdIsValid(XidFromFullTransactionId(x))
+#define InvalidFullTransactionId		FullTransactionIdFromEpochAndXid(0, InvalidTransactionId)
 
 /*
  * A 64 bit value that contains an epoch and a TransactionId.  This is
@@ -221,7 +222,7 @@ extern TransactionId TransactionIdLatest(TransactionId mainxid,
 extern XLogRecPtr TransactionIdGetCommitLSN(TransactionId xid);
 
 /* in transam/varsup.c */
-extern TransactionId GetNewTransactionId(bool isSubXact);
+extern FullTransactionId GetNewTransactionId(bool isSubXact);
 extern void AdvanceNextFullTransactionIdPastXid(TransactionId xid);
 extern FullTransactionId ReadNextFullTransactionId(void);
 extern void SetTransactionIdLimit(TransactionId oldest_datfrozenxid,

src/include/access/xact.h

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 #ifndef XACT_H
 #define XACT_H
 
+#include "access/transam.h"
 #include "access/xlogreader.h"
 #include "lib/stringinfo.h"
 #include "nodes/pg_list.h"
@@ -355,6 +356,10 @@ extern TransactionId GetCurrentTransactionId(void);
 extern TransactionId GetCurrentTransactionIdIfAny(void);
 extern TransactionId GetStableLatestTransactionId(void);
 extern SubTransactionId GetCurrentSubTransactionId(void);
+extern FullTransactionId GetTopFullTransactionId(void);
+extern FullTransactionId GetTopFullTransactionIdIfAny(void);
+extern FullTransactionId GetCurrentFullTransactionId(void);
+extern FullTransactionId GetCurrentFullTransactionIdIfAny(void);
 extern void MarkCurrentTransactionIdLoggedIfAny(void);
 extern bool SubTransactionIsActive(SubTransactionId subxid);
 extern CommandId GetCurrentCommandId(bool used);

src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list

@@ -2107,6 +2107,7 @@ SeqTableData
 SerCommitSeqNo
 SerializedReindexState
 SerializedSnapshotData
+SerializedTransactionState
 Session
 SessionBackupState
 SetConstraintState