On 04/16/2014 11:30 AM, Andres Freund wrote: > On 2014-04-16 11:25:49 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote: >> On 04/16/2014 11:22 AM, Andres Freund wrote: >>>> I'm serious. The multixact stuff has been broken since 9.3 >>>> was released, and it's *still* broken. We can't give users any guidance >>>> or tools on how to set multixact stuff, and autovacuum doesn't handle it >>>> properly. >>> >>> Sorry, but I think you're blowing some GUCs *WAY* out of proportion. >> >> I'm not talking about the GUCs. > > That was about: > "We can't give users any guidance or tools on how to set multixact > stuff, and autovacuum doesn't handle it properly."
OK. I will point out that if multixact freeze was an *intentional* feature, we'd never have accepted it given the total lack of either documentation or monitorability. > >> I'm talking about the data corruption bugs. > > That was covered by "at this point ripping this out seems likely to > cause many more bugs than it would solve". That's certainly possible. I just don't think the option of reversing those patches should be off the table. Things have been bad enough that that might be the best option. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
