Re: Rework the way multixact truncations work - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: Rework the way multixact truncations work
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Msg-id 20150921173840.GC1228@awork2.anarazel.de
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In response to Re: Rework the way multixact truncations work  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
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On 2015-09-21 10:30:59 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> On 09/21/2015 07:36 AM, Andres Freund wrote:
> > On 2015-09-21 10:31:17 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> >> So, where are we with this patch?
> > 
> > Uh. I'd basically been waiting on further review and then forgot about
> > it.
> 
> Does the current plan to never expire XIDs in 9.6 affect multixact
> truncation at all?

I doubt that it'd in a meaningful manner. Truncations will still need to
happen to contain space usage.

Besides, I'm pretty sceptical of shaping the design of bug fixes to suit
some unwritten feature we only know the highest level design of as of
yet.

Greetings,

Andres Freund



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