On Sat, Jul 2, 2022 at 08:13:41PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 1, 2022 at 09:56:17AM -0700, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 1, 2022 at 9:41 AM Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote:
> > > > It might be worth explaining the shift directly in the release notes.
> > > > The new approach is simpler and makes a lot more sense -- why should
> > > > the relfrozenxid be closely tied to freezing? We don't necessarily
> > >
> > > I don't think this is an appropriate detail for the release notes.
> >
> > Okay. What about saying something about relminmxid advancement where
> > the database consumes lots of multixacts?
>
> No. same issue.
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.
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-15.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-15.sgml
index 47ac329e79..179ad37d9d 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release-15.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-15.sgml
@@ -994,7 +994,8 @@ Author: Peter Geoghegan <p...@bowt.ie>
<listitem>
<para>
Allow <link linkend="routine-vacuuming">vacuum</link> to be more
- aggressive in setting the oldest frozenxid (Peter Geoghegan)
+ aggressive in setting the oldest frozen and multi transaction id
+ (Peter Geoghegan)
</para>
</listitem>
