Redesign query-snapshot timing so that volatile functions in READ COMMITTED

mode see a fresh snapshot for each command in the function, rather than
using the latest interactive command's snapshot.  Also, suppress fresh
snapshots as well as CommandCounterIncrement inside STABLE and IMMUTABLE
functions, instead using the snapshot taken for the most closely nested
regular query.  (This behavior is only sane for read-only functions, so
the patch also enforces that such functions contain only SELECT commands.)
As per my proposal of 6-Sep-2004; I note that I floated essentially the
same proposal on 19-Jun-2002, but that discussion tailed off without any
action.  Since 8.0 seems like the right place to be taking possibly
nontrivial backwards compatibility hits, let's get it done now.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/src/include/executor/executor.h b/src/include/executor/executor.h
index 81b53d272c5..7f894f26d8b 100644
--- a/src/include/executor/executor.h
+++ b/src/include/executor/executor.h
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
  * Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2004, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
  * Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
  *
- * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/include/executor/executor.h,v 1.112 2004/08/29 05:06:56 momjian Exp $
+ * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/include/executor/executor.h,v 1.113 2004/09/13 20:07:52 tgl Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -95,8 +95,7 @@ extern HeapTuple ExecRemoveJunk(JunkFilter *junkfilter, TupleTableSlot *slot);
 /*
  * prototypes from functions in execMain.c
  */
-extern void ExecutorStart(QueryDesc *queryDesc, bool useCurrentSnapshot,
-			  bool explainOnly);
+extern void ExecutorStart(QueryDesc *queryDesc, bool explainOnly);
 extern TupleTableSlot *ExecutorRun(QueryDesc *queryDesc,
 			ScanDirection direction, long count);
 extern void ExecutorEnd(QueryDesc *queryDesc);