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Subject: Re: PQxactid always sent as 0?
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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 93 10:24:37 PST

In message <9303190610.AA03786@postgres.Berkeley.EDU> you write:

> Please correct me if I am in error.  It seems that in dest.c PQxactid
> is always sent to the front end as zero.  Is this correct?  Is there a
> deep sinister reason behind it?  IOW if I change the pq_putint(0, 4)'s
> to pq_putint(GetCurrentTransactionId(), 4) am I going to explode?
> 
> It seems to work but it also seems that whoever decided it was not wise
> must have had a reason.

this was almost certainly an oversight; nothing bad will happen if you
fix it.
					mike