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Nope. Any time you are looking at a tuple in the existing heap, you have to test it for visibility against your snapshot. With zheap, it's much the same, except that, rather than just "yes or no", the answer could be that you have to following an update chain into the undo log to get an older version.


Ah gotcha. Thanks for the explanation, makes sense. So I guess you still have transaction ids you need to honour on your way back.




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