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

John Naylor <john.naylor@enterprisedb.com>

From: John Naylor <john.naylor@enterprisedb.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>
Date: 2023-05-03T07:30:13Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Wed, May 3, 2023 at 10:04 AM Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> wrote:
>
> That's not the only reason, though. I also genuinely don't have the
> foggiest notion what was behind what you said. In particular, this
> part still makes zero sense to me:
>
> "Claim that others are holding you back, and then try to move the
> goalposts in their work"

I went to go find the phrase that I thought I was reacted to, and ...
nothing. I am also baffled.  My comment was inexcusable.

--
John Naylor
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.