Re: ERROR: cannot GetMultiXactIdMembers() during recovery

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Marko Tiikkaja <marko(at)joh(dot)to>, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: ERROR: cannot GetMultiXactIdMembers() during recovery
Date: 2015-05-18 17:36:23
Message-ID: 20150518173623.GS2523@alvh.no-ip.org
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Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2015-05-18 14:13:51 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > Hmm, AFAICS the problematic check was introduced by this commit:
> >
> > commit 9f1e051adefb2f29e757cf426b03db20d3f8a26d
> > Author: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
> > Date: Fri Nov 29 11:26:41 2013 -0300
> >
> > so it isn't hot off the oven, but it is a regression.
>
> Hasn't that just changed the symptoms? I don't recall exactly, but my
> recollection is that the multixact code isn't ready at that point and
> hasn't initialized a bunch of important variables yet. Leading to errors
> in the SLRU etc.

Not sure about that. The page limits etc aren't set yet so you can't
create new multis, nor truncate appropriately, but just reading one
should have worked.

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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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