On 2013-12-03 10:29:54 -0500, Noah Misch wrote: > Sorry, my original report was rather terse. I speak of the scenario exercised > by the second permutation in that isolationtester spec. The multixact is > later than VACUUM's cutoff_multi, so 9.3.1 does not freeze it at all. 9.3.2 > does freeze it to InvalidTransactionId per the code I cited in my first > response on this thread, which wrongly removes a key lock.
That one is clear, I was only confused about the Assert() you reported. But I think I've explained that elsewhere. I currently don't see fixing the errorneous freezing of lockers (not the updater though) without changing the wal format or synchronously waiting for all lockers to end. Which both see like a no-go? While it's still a major bug it seems to still be much better than the previous case of either inaccessible or reappearing rows. Greetings, Andres Freund -- Andres Freund http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers