Re: relfrozenxid may disagree with row XIDs after 1ccc1e05ae

Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>

From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>

To: Bowen Shi <zxwsbg12138@gmail.com>

Cc: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>, Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org>

Date: 2024-06-17T21:29:48Z

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Ensure vacuum removes all visibly dead tuples older than OldestXmin
- 06bf404cd07b 16.4 landed
- 45ce054c02b8 14.13 landed
- dc6354c67017 15.8 landed
Combine freezing and pruning steps in VACUUM
- 6dbb490261a6 17.0 cited
Handle non-chain tuples outside of heap_prune_chain()
- 6f47f6883151 17.0 cited
Fix false reports in pg_visibility
- e85662df44ff 17.0 cited
Remove retry loop in heap_page_prune().
- 1ccc1e05ae8f 17.0 cited
vacuumlazy.c: document vistest and OldestXmin.
- 73f6ec3d3c8d 15.0 cited
Deduplicate choice of horizon for a relation procarray.c.
- d9d8aa9bb9aa 15.0 cited
Remove tupgone special case from vacuumlazy.c.
- 8523492d4e34 14.0 cited
Simplify state managed by VACUUM.
- b4af70cb2103 14.0 cited
Recycle nbtree pages deleted during same VACUUM.
- 9dd963ae2534 14.0 cited
snapshot scalability: Don't compute global horizons while building snapshots.
- dc7420c2c927 14.0 cited
Raise error when affecting tuple moved into different partition.
- f16241bef7cc 11.0 cited

On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 4:29 AM Bowen Shi <zxwsbg12138@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I only had time to check the fix_hang_15.patch until today.

Did it end up working for you?

> What would happen if we simply skipped the current page when we found the vacuum process had entered the infinite loop (use a counter)?

Skipping the page would mean we can't advance relfrozenxid for the
table on this vacuum. Since we have ways to fix it, it seems better to
do that.

- Melanie