Re: pg_multixact not getting truncated - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: pg_multixact not getting truncated
Date
Msg-id 546D08B3.9010306@agliodbs.com
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In response to Re: pg_multixact not getting truncated  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
Responses Re: pg_multixact not getting truncated  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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On 11/19/2014 01:03 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Josh Berkus wrote:
>> On 11/12/2014 06:57 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>>>> How did template0 even get a MultiXact? That sounds like they're really abusing the template databases. :( (Do
keepin mind that MXID 1 is a special value.)
 
>>> No, it's normal -- template0 does not have a multixact in any tuple's
>>> xmax, but datminxid is set to the value that is current when it is
>>> frozen.
>>
>> So, to follow up on this: it seems to me that we shouldn't be requiring
>> freezing for databases where allowconn=false.  This seems like a TODO to
>> me, even possibly a backpatchable bug fix.
> 
> Why do we need this for pg_multixact but not for pg_clog?

I think we want it for both.

-- 
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
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