"Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz@postgresql.org> writes:
> On 8/2/22 3:39 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> I am not in favor of disabling autovacuum in the test: ordinary
>>> users are not going to do that while pg_upgrade'ing, so it'd make
>>> the test less representative of real-world usage, which seems like
>>> a bad idea. We could either drop this particular check again, or
>>> weaken it to allow new relfrozenxid >= old relfrozenxid, likewise
>>> relminxid.
> The test does look helpful and it would catch regressions. Loosely
> quoting Robert on a different point upthread, we don't want to turn off
> the alarm just because it's spuriously going off.
> I think the weakened check is OK (and possibly mimics the real-world
> where autovacuum runs), unless you see a major drawback to it?
I also think that ">=" is a sufficient requirement. It'd be a
bit painful to test if we had to cope with potential XID wraparound,
but we know that these installations haven't been around nearly
long enough for that, so a plain ">=" test ought to be good enough.
(Replacing the simple "eq" code with something that can handle that
doesn't look like much fun, though.)
regards, tom lane
