Re: pg_multixact not getting truncated

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)bluetreble(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_multixact not getting truncated
Date: 2014-11-20 21:03:53
Message-ID: CA+TgmoaoRaE0a9RkPNQDi-fN9dKEBCt=Pt37h5i0Y8m8RedbXA@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
>> So that we can have two ways to lose data?
>>
>> Forbidding connections to a database doesn't prevent XID or MXID wraparound.
>
> It does prevent the user from doing anything about it, though, since
> they can't manually vacuum template0 without knowing unpublished hackery.

True. I don't know what to do about that. Do you?

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Robert Haas
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The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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