Re: visibility map corruption - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: visibility map corruption
Date
Msg-id 20210706175808.GC26994@momjian.us
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In response to Re: visibility map corruption  (Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>)
Responses Re: visibility map corruption  (Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>)
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On Tue, Jul  6, 2021 at 10:32:24AM -0700, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 6, 2021 at 10:27 AM Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> > OK, this is confirmation that the pg_resetwal bug, and its use by
> > pg_upgrade, is a serious issue that needs to be addressed.  I am
> > prepared to work on it now.
> 
> To be clear, I'm not 100% sure that this is related to the pg_upgrade
> + "pg_resetwal sets oldestXid to an invented value" issue. I am sure
> that that is a serious issue that needs to be addressed sooner rather
> than later, though.

Well, pg_upgrade corruptions are rare, but so is modifying
autovacuum_freeze_max_age.  If we have a corruption and we know
autovacuum_freeze_max_age was modified, odds are that is the cause.

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