Remove the "snapshot too old" feature.
Remove the old_snapshot_threshold setting and mechanism for producing
the error "snapshot too old", originally added by commit
848ef42b.
Unfortunately it had a number of known problems in terms of correctness
and performance, mostly reported by Andres in the course of his work on
snapshot scalability. We agreed to remove it, after a long period
without an active plan to fix it.
This is certainly a desirable feature, and someone might propose a new
or improved implementation in the future.
Reported-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACG%3DezYV%2BEvO135fLRdVn-ZusfVsTY6cH1OZqWtezuEYH6ciQA%40mail.gmail.com
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