Hi Arseny. I'm writing a commit message to push this test change, and I can't explain this bit:
On 2018-Jul-02, Arseny Sher wrote: > 3) As a side note, answer to my question 'why do we get different errors > with VACUUM and VACUUM FULL' is the following. With VACUUM FULL, not > only old pg_attribute entry is pruned, but also xmin of new entry > with attisdropped=true is reset to frozen xid. This means that > decoding session (RelationBuildTupleDesc) actually sees 3 attributes, > and the fact that one of them is dropped doesn't embarrass this > function (apparently relnatts in pg_class is never decremented) -- > we just go ahead and decode only live attributes. I just don't see it that VACUUM FULL would change the xmin of anything to FrozenXid, and in my experiments it doesn't. Did you mean VACUUM FREEZE? PS - sorry about the broken CC I added :-( -- Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services