Remove replication slot advice from MultiXact wraparound hints

Fujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org>

Commit: 802dc79df63b6af33429e99c497a7ecc8dca378d
Author: Fujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org>
Date: 2026-07-03T02:22:55Z
Remove replication slot advice from MultiXact wraparound hints

Previously, MultiXactId wraparound hints suggested dropping stale
replication slots. While that advice is appropriate for transaction ID
wraparound, where replication slots can hold back XID horizons,
it was misleading for MultiXactId wraparound. Following it could lead
users to drop replication slots unnecessarily without helping resolve
the MultiXactId wraparound condition.

MultiXact cleanup is not directly delayed by replication slots.
Instead, it depends on whether old MultiXactIds can still be seen
as live by running transactions.

This commit removes the replication slot advice from MultiXactId
wraparound hints, and documents that stale replication slots are
normally not relevant to resolving MultiXactId wraparound problems.

Backpatch to all supported branches.

BUG #18876
Reported-by: Haruka Takatsuka <harukat@sraoss.co.jp>
Author: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18876-0d0b53bad5a1f4c1@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 14

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doc/src/sgml/maintenance.sgml modified +6 −0
src/backend/access/transam/multixact.c modified +6 −6

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