Re: Spurious "apparent wraparound" via SimpleLruTruncate() rounding

From: Andrey Borodin <x4mmm(at)yandex-team(dot)ru>
To: Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Spurious "apparent wraparound" via SimpleLruTruncate() rounding
Date: 2021-01-12 16:41:19
Message-ID: 615304C2-8BEE-465D-BE35-543E4587D61B@yandex-team.ru
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> 12 янв. 2021 г., в 13:49, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com> написал(а):
>
> What do you think of abandoning slru-truncate-t-insurance entirely? As of
> https://postgr.es/m/20200330052809.GB2324620@rfd.leadboat.com I liked the idea
> behind it, despite its complicating the system for hackers and DBAs. The
> TruncateMultiXact() interaction rendered it less appealing. In v14+, commit
> cd5e822 mitigates the kind of bugs that slru-truncate-t-insurance mitigates,
> further reducing the latter's value. slru-truncate-t-insurance does mitigate
> larger trespasses into unlink-eligible space, though.
I seem to me that not committing an insurance patch is not a mistake. Let's abandon slru-truncate-t-insurance for now.

>> Fix <slru-truncate-modulo-v6.patch> certainly worth backpatching.
>
> I'll push it on Saturday, probably.
Thanks!

Best regards, Andrey Borodin.

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