Robert Haas wrote:
> >> > The effect is to map max xid + 1 to max xid -
> >> > FirstNormalTransactionId(3) + 1, which makes the xid look like it is
> >> > going backwards, less than max xid --- not good.
> >>
> >> The XID space is *circular*.
> >
> > Right but you would think that as the xid moves forward, the caculation
> > of how far back to vacuum should move only forward. ?In this case,
> > incrementing the xid by one would cause the vacuum horizon to move
> > backward by two.
>
> I don't see how that would happen. The XID immediately preceding
> FirstNormalTransactionId is 2^32-1, and that's exactly what this
> calculation produces.
OK, let me see if I understand --- the caculation is below:
xidForceLimit = recentXid - autovacuum_freeze_max_age; if (xidForceLimit < FirstNormalTransactionId)
xidForceLimit-= FirstNormalTransactionId;
The values:
xidForceLimit Result---------------------------max_xid-2 max_xid-2max_xid-1 max_xid-1max_xid max_xid0
max_xid-3 <- backward here1 max_xid-22 max_xid-13 3
With the -= change to =, we get:
xidForceLimit Result---------------------------max_xid-2 max_xid-2max_xid-1 max_xid-1max_xid max_xid0
31 32 33 3
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