Re: [PATCH] Clarify the behavior of the system when approaching XID wraparound

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Cc: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@timescale.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Pavel Borisov <pashkin.elfe@gmail.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Date: 2023-10-16T20:00:49Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 3:46 PM Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 11:06 AM Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I propose to commit these changes only to master. I have included a
> > fairly long paragraph about that in the commit message for 0002.
>
> LGTM, except for one small detail: I noticed that you misspelled
> "translations" in the commit message.

Oops. Fixed locally.

> Thanks for getting this over the line

Sure thing. I'm glad we're finally doing something about it.

-- 
Robert Haas
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com



Commits

  1. Reword messages about impending (M)XID exhaustion.

  2. Talk about assigning, rather than generating, new MultiXactIds.

  3. Update the documentation on recovering from (M)XID exhaustion.