Re: Multixact and prepared transactions - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Heikki Linnakangas
Subject Re: Multixact and prepared transactions
Date
Msg-id 4B0A5F81.3060506@enterprisedb.com
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In response to Re: Multixact and prepared transactions  (Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>)
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Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>> We seem to have neglected prepared transactions in the logic that tracks
>> the oldest visible multixact. OldestMemberMXactId doesn't contain
>> entries for prepared transactions, so the UPDATE incorrectly considers
>> the multixact as an old obsolete one.
>>
>> A straightforward fix is to enlarge OldestMemberMXactId to make room for
>> max_prepared_transactions extra entries, and at prepare transfer the
>> value of the current backend to one of those slots.
>
> So here's a patch doing that:

Committed.

> BTW, I noticed that in deadlock.c, we reserve many working arrays of
> size MaxBackends. But prepared transactions can hold locks too, and
> therefore can be visited by the deadlock checker. Shouldn't we reserve
> space in the arrays for prepared xacts as well? You'll be hard-pressed
> to hit that in practice, given that MaxBackends includes room for
> autovacuum launcher and worker too, and you'd need to have all backends
> involved in the deadlock. But still.

This is still pending.

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  Heikki Linnakangas
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