Re: pg_resetxlog -m documentation not up to date - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 6/19/13 9:57 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >> Ping.  This ought to be fixed before 9.3 goes out.
> > 
> > Will fix.
> > 
> >> On Sat, 2013-04-27 at 21:22 -0400, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >>> The pg_resetxlog -m option was changed from
> 
> The man page lists the -m option as -m mxid,mxid, but the --help output
> has -m XID,XID.  Is that correct?  Do we consider MXIDs to be a subset
> of XIDs?

Yeah, mxids are stored in places that normally store Xids (namely a
tuples' Xmax field).  That said, I don't see any reason not to have
--help show -m MXID,MXID.

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