On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com> writes:
>> On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> B. We need to change find_multixact_start() to fail softly.
>
>> Here is an experimental WIP patch that changes StartupMultiXact and
>> SetMultiXactIdLimit to find the oldest multixact that exists on disk
>> (by scanning the directory), and uses that if it is more recent than
>> the oldestMultiXactId from shmem,
>
> Not sure about the details of this patch, but I was planning to propose
> what I think is the same thing: the way to make find_multixact_start()
> fail softly is to have it find the oldest actually existing file if the
> one that should be there isn't.
Working on that now.
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