Re: Re: BUG #12990: Missing pg_multixact/members files (appears to have wrapped, then truncated)

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com>
Cc: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Timothy Garnett <tgarnett(at)panjiva(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Bugs <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Re: BUG #12990: Missing pg_multixact/members files (appears to have wrapped, then truncated)
Date: 2015-05-06 02:08:41
Message-ID: CA+TgmoYsLc=DfgmJC1Hg4kUQwa8bayY1c9E+pwGMZr5cDTDQ6Q@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 6:36 PM, Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com> wrote:
>> So I think that
>> some_constant should be at least 2, if we try to do it this way, in
>> other words if you set the GUC for 10% of offset space, we also start
>> triggering wraparounds at 20% of member space.
>
> But what if they configure it to start at 80% (which I *have* seen
> people do)?

I might be confused here, but the upper limit for
autovacuum_multixact_freeze_max_age is 2 billion, so I don't think
this can ever be higher than 50%. Well, 46.5%, really, since 2^32 > 4
billion. autovacuum_freeze_max_age is similarly limited.

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Robert Haas
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