Re: IPC/MultixactCreation on the Standby server

From: Andrey Borodin <x4mmm(at)yandex-team(dot)ru>
To: Dmitry <dsy(dot)075(at)yandex(dot)ru>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: IPC/MultixactCreation on the Standby server
Date: 2025-06-26 12:59:33
Message-ID: 1A375E42-E5D3-40FF-B846-E2A2EAAE211C@yandex-team.ru
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> On 26 Jun 2025, at 14:33, Dmitry <dsy(dot)075(at)yandex(dot)ru> wrote:
>
> On 25.06.2025 16:44, Dmitry wrote:
>> I will definitely try to reproduce the problem with your patch.
> Hi Andrey!
>
> I checked with the patch, unfortunately the problem is also reproducible.
> Client processes wake up after a second and try to get information about the members of the multixact again, in an endless loop.
> At the same time, the WALs are not played, the 'startup' process also hangs on the 'LWLock/BufferContent'.

My hypothesis is that MultiXactState->nextMXact is not filled often enough from redo pathes. So if you are unlucky enough, corner case 2 reading can deadlock with startup.
I need to verify it further, but if so - I's an ancient bug that just happens to be few orders of magnitude more reproducible on 17 due to performance improvements. Still a hypothetical though.

Best regards, Andrey Borodin.

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