Re: First draft of the PG 15 release notes

On Tue, Jul 5, 2022 at 11:51:31AM -0700, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 5, 2022 at 11:09 AM Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> >
> > Actually, I was wrong. I thought that we only mentioned that we
> > computed a more agressive xid, but now see I was mentioning the _frozen_
> > xid. Reading the commit, we do compute the multi-xid and store that too
> > so I have updated the PG 15 release notes with the attached patch.
>
> It might be worth using the "symbol names" directly, since they appear
> in the documentation already (under "Routine Vacuuming"). These are
> <structfield>relfrozenxid</structfield> and
> <structfield>relminmxid</structfield>. These are implementation
> details, but they're documented in detail (though admittedly the
> documentation has *lots* of problems).

Well, users can look into the details if they wish.

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