On Mon, May 13, 2024 at 03:53:08PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Sun, May 12, 2024 at 7:29 PM Noah Misch <n...@leadboat.com> wrote:
> > - [consequences limited to transient failure] Since a PROC_IN_VACUUM 
> > backend's
> >   xmin does not stop pruning, an MVCC scan in that backend can find zero
> >   tuples when one is live.  This is like what all backends got in the days 
> > of
> >   SnapshotNow catalog scans.  See the pgbench test suite addition.  (Perhaps
> >   the fix is to make VACUUM do its MVCC scans outside of PROC_IN_VACUUM,
> >   setting that flag later and unsetting it earlier.)
> 
> Are you saying that this is a problem already, or that the patch
> causes it to start happening? If it's the former, that's horrible.

The former.


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