Re: Wraparound warning

From: Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Wraparound warning
Date: 2016-10-26 00:41:13
Message-ID: 20161026004113.GB796116@tornado.leadboat.com
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On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 01:32:04PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 01:19:26PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 11:20 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> > > LOG: MultiXact member wraparound protections are now enabled
> > >
> > > I thought that was going to be removed at some point, no?

Latest proposal on when to remove it:
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CA%2BTgmobOoo9a9tGbvXgnvZC_p_15sVNHu2mV9usbB_OLGRZSmw%40mail.gmail.com

Since we have outstanding multixact bugs, that proposal's clock of "a couple
of years" has not begun to tick.

> > Maybe what we should do (since this message obviously annoys everyone)
>
> It is a persistent reminder our of engineering failure. I guess it
> should annoy us, and maybe that's OK.

Yep.

> > is change things so that, starting in v10, a message is logged at
> > startup if those protections are NOT enabled, and nothing is logged if
> > they are enabled. Keep the message for the case where protections are
> > enabled later, after startup time.

I continue to find the message good as-is, per the thread I linked above.

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