Re: IPC/MultixactCreation on the Standby server - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrey Borodin
Subject Re: IPC/MultixactCreation on the Standby server
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Msg-id 83780391-9283-446C-9E41-2D93261915C3@yandex-team.ru
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In response to Re: IPC/MultixactCreation on the Standby server  (Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>)
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> On 27 Nov 2025, at 01:59, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> wrote:
>
> This is because the WAL, created with old version, contains records like this:
>
> lsn: 0/05561030, prev 0/05561008, desc: CREATE_ID 2047 offset 4093 nmembers 2: 2830 (keysh) 2831 (keysh)
> lsn: 0/055611A8, prev 0/05561180, desc: ZERO_OFF_PAGE 1
> lsn: 0/055611D0, prev 0/055611A8, desc: CREATE_ID 2048 offset 4095 nmembers 2: 2831 (keysh) 2832 (keysh)
>

That's an interesting case. I don't see how SLRU interface can be used to test if SLRU page is initialized correctly.
Weneed a version of SimpleLruReadPage() that can avoid failure if page does not exist yet, and this must not be more
expensivethan current SimpleLruReadPage(). Alternatively we need new XLOG_MULTIXACT_CREATE_ID_2 in back branches. 

BTW, my concern about MultiXactState->nextMXact was wrong, now I see it. I was almost certain that something is wrong
andworks by accident during summer, but now everything looks 100% correct... 

Also, when working on v10 I've asked LLM for help with commit message, and it hallucinated Álvaro's e-mail
<alvherre@postgresql.org>IDK, maybe it's real, but it was not used in this thread. 

>
> - I reverted the changes to ExtendMultiXactOffset(), so that it deals with wraparound and FirstMultiXactId the same
wayas before. The caller never passes FirstMultiXactId, but the changed comments and the assertion were confusing, so I
feltit's best to just leave it alone 

Maybe move a decision (to extend or not to extend) out of this function? Now its purpose is
"MaybeExtendMultiXactOffset".And there's just one caller. 

Thanks for picking this up! (And reading other thread about multixacts more attentively I see I misinformed you that
thisbug is connected to that bug...sorry! I'll review that one too!) 


Best regards, Andrey Borodin.


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