Re: HeapTupleHeaderAdvanceLatestRemovedXid doing the wrong thing with multixacts

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 08:38:18PM +0100, Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 8:03 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> > Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> writes:
> >> I just noticed that HeapTupleHeaderAdvanceLatestRemovedXid is comparing Xmax as a TransactionId without verifying whether it is a multixact or not.  Since they advance separately, this could lead to bogus answers.  This probably needs to be fixed.  I didn't look into past releases to see if there's a live released bug here or not.
> >
> >> I think the fix is simply to ignore the Xmax if the HEAP_XMAX_IS_MULTI bit is set.
> >
> >> Additionally I think it should check HEAP_XMAX_INVALID before reading the Xmax at all.
> >
> > If it's failing to even check XMAX_INVALID, surely it's completely
> > broken?  Perhaps it assumes its caller has checked all this?
>
> HeapTupleHeaderAdvanceLatestRemovedXid() is only ever called when
> HeapTupleSatisfiesVacuum() returns HEAPTUPLE_DEAD, which only happens
> when HEAP_XMAX_IS_MULTI is not set.
>
> I'll add an assert to check this and a comment to explain.

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