Re: MultiXact member wraparound protections are now enabled

On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 9:14 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
> On 7/22/15 4:45 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
>> But it seemed to me that this could be rather confusing. I thought it
>> would be better to be explicit about whether the protections are
>> enabled in all cases. That way, (1) if you see the message saying
>> they are enabled, they are enabled; (2) if you see the message saying
>> they are disabled, they are disabled; and (3) if you see neither
>> message, your version does not have those protections.
>
> But this is not documented, AFAICT, so I don't think anyone is going to
> be able to follow that logic. I don't see anything in the release notes
> saying, look for this message to see how this applies to you, or whatever.

Good point. I can't tell you what the right thing to do is, and I'm
sure there is room for debate about that. I'm only telling you why I
did what I did.

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