Re: pg_get_multixact_members not documented

Sami Imseih <samimseih@gmail.com>

From: Sami Imseih <samimseih@gmail.com>
To: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat.oss@gmail.com>
Cc: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-06-11T16:14:12Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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> It's not clear, without some effort, which lock mode go with which row lock in that description.
> For example, "keysh" does not have "for" in it but "fornokeyupd" does. How about rephrasing this
> as "The lock modes "keysh", "sh", fornokeyupd", and "forupd" correspond to
> <literal>FOR KEY SHARE</literal>, <literal>FOR SHARE</literal>, <literal>FOR NO KEY UPDATE</literal>,
> and <literal>FOR UPDATE</literal> row level locks respectively as described in <xref linkend="locking-rows"/>."

That works for me.

> Do we want to add the section "Multixact Information Functions" after other transaction related
> sections like "Transaction ID and Snapshot Information Function" and
> " Committed Transaction Information Functions" instead of adding it at the end?

makes sense.

See v4 which addresses the points above.

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Sami

Commits

  1. Document pg_get_multixact_members().