Re: pgsql: Fix "base" snapshot handling in logical decoding

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Arseny Sher <a.sher@postgrespro.ru>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2018-07-05T18:22:32Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
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 :-(

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Commits

  1. Reduce cost of test_decoding's new oldest_xmin test

  2. Fix "base" snapshot handling in logical decoding