On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 11:47 AM Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> wrote:
> In summary, I think that there is currently no way that we can have
> the VM (or the PD_ALL_VISIBLE flag) concurrently unset, while leaving
> the page all_frozen. It can happen and leave the page all_visible, but
> not all_frozen, due to these very fine details. (Assuming I haven't
> missed another path to the problem with aborted Multis or something,
> but looks like I haven't.)
Actually, FreezeMultiXactId() can fully remove an xmax that has some
member XIDs >= OldestXmin, provided FRM_NOOP processing isn't
possible, at least when no individual member is still running. Doesn't
have to involve transaction aborts at all.
Let me go try to break it that way...
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Peter Geoghegan
