Re: multixacts woes

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: multixacts woes
Date: 2015-05-08 20:16:16
Message-ID: 20150508201616.GE2658@alap3.anarazel.de
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On 2015-05-08 12:57:17 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> I have a couple workloads in my pool which do consume mxids faster than
> xids, due to (I think) execeptional numbers of FK conflicts. It's
> definitely unusual, though, and I'm sure they'd rather have corruption
> protection and endure some more vacuums. If we do this, though, it
> might be worthwhile to backport the multixact age function, so that
> affected users can check and schedule mxact wraparound vacuums
> themselves, something you currently can't do on 9.3.

That's not particularly realistic due to the requirement of an initdb to
change the catalog.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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