Re: collect_corrupt_items_vacuum.patch

Hi hackers!

Daniel is busy with other tasks. I've found this topic and this problem
seems to be actual
or v15 too.
Please correct me if I am wrong. I've checked another discussion related to
pg_visibility [1].
According to discussion: if using latest completed xid is not right for
checking visibility, than
it should be the least running transaction xid? So it must be another
function to be used for
these calculations, not the GetOldestNonRemovableTransactionId that uses
the ComputeXidHorizons.

[1]
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/c0610352-8433-ab4b-986d-0e803c628efe%40postgrespro.ru

On Wed, Oct 12, 2022 at 8:15 AM Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 09:47:19PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 5:56 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> > > Maybe we need a different function for pg_visibility to call?
> > > If we want ComputeXidHorizons to serve both these purposes, then it
> > > has to always deliver exactly the right answer, which seems like
> > > a definition that will be hard and expensive to achieve.
> >
> > Yeah, I was thinking along similar lines.
> >
> > I'm also kind of wondering why these calculations use
> > latestCompletedXid. Is that something we do solely to reduce locking?
> > The XIDs of running transactions matter, and their snapshots matter,
> > and the XIDs that could start running in the future matter, but I
> > don't know why it matters what the latest completed XID is.
>
> Daniel, it seems to me that this thread is waiting for some input from
> you, based on the remarks of Tom and Robert. Are you planning to do
> so? This is marked as a bug fix, so I have moved this item to the
> next CF for now.
> --
> Michael
>

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