Re: Reviewing freeze map code

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Josh berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Reviewing freeze map code
Date: 2016-05-06 22:07:52
Message-ID: 20160506220752.GA329121@alvherre.pgsql
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> We touched this question in connection with multixact freezing and
> wraparound. Testers seem to want to be given a script that they can
> install and run, then go for a beer and get back to a bunch of errors to
> report.

Here I spent some time trying to explain what to test to try and find
certain multixact bugs
http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20150605213832.GZ133018@postgresql.org

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