Re: pg_resetxlog -m documentation not up to date

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pg_resetxlog -m documentation not up to date
Date: 2013-07-01 21:25:45
Message-ID: 20130701212544.GN3757@eldon.alvh.no-ip.org
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 6/19/13 9:57 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >> Ping. This ought to be fixed before 9.3 goes out.
> >
> > Will fix.
> >
> >> On Sat, 2013-04-27 at 21:22 -0400, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >>> The pg_resetxlog -m option was changed from
>
> The man page lists the -m option as -m mxid,mxid, but the --help output
> has -m XID,XID. Is that correct? Do we consider MXIDs to be a subset
> of XIDs?

Yeah, mxids are stored in places that normally store Xids (namely a
tuples' Xmax field). That said, I don't see any reason not to have
--help show -m MXID,MXID.

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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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