On 21/09/2026 07:43, Naga Appani wrote:
> I did not add the start-of-recovery initialization from the control file
> Heikki mentioned [0]. With only the redo-path update there is still a short
> window before the first truncation record is replayed where oldestOffset
> reads 0. Handling that at startup needs the value without the
> find_multixact_start() lookup, which asserts finishedStartup, so I left it
> out for now.
Hmm, the window could be very long, there's no guarantee that you'll see
a MULTIXACT_TRUNCATE_ID record any time soon. And after restart, it'll
revert back to 0 again. If we can't get a reasonable value at startup, I
wonder if we should just always show NULL in the standby.
- Heikki
