Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote:
He means that the tuple that heap_update moves to page 1 (which will no longer be processed by vacuum) will contain a multixact that's older than relminmxid -- because it is copied unchanged by heap_update instead of properly checking against age limit.
I see. The problem is more or less with this heap_update() code: /* * And also prepare an Xmax value for the new copy of the tuple. If there * was no xmax previously, or there was one but all lockers are now gone, * then use InvalidXid; otherwise, get the xmax from the old tuple. (In * rare cases that might also be InvalidXid and yet not have the * HEAP_XMAX_INVALID bit set; that's fine.) */ if ((oldtup.t_data->t_infomask & HEAP_XMAX_INVALID) || HEAP_LOCKED_UPGRADED(oldtup.t_data->t_infomask) || (checked_lockers && !locker_remains)) xmax_new_tuple = InvalidTransactionId; else xmax_new_tuple = HeapTupleHeaderGetRawXmax(oldtup.t_data); My naive guess is that we have to create a new MultiXactId here in at least some cases, just like FreezeMultiXactId() sometimes does. -- Peter Geoghegan -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers