Re: pg_multixact not getting truncated

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(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 20:44:34
Message-ID: 546E52B2.8020103@agliodbs.com
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> 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they can't manually vacuum template0 without knowing unpublished hackery.

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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://pgexperts.com

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