Remove replication slot advice from MultiXact wraparound hints

Fujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org>

Commit: 814df787f68a2a75c7c7355c7fbaf135536e481a
Author: Fujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org>
Date: 2026-07-03T02:22:15Z
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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