Re: MultiXact bugs

Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:

> Looking at predicate.c I think I see a bigger problem though: Isn't its
> usage of HeapTupleSatisfiesVacuum() quite dangerous? It passes
> TransactionXmin to HeapTupleSatisfiesVacuum(). But since that's just the
> transaction's own cutoff, not the global cutoff that will cause wrong
> hint bits to be set. Or am I missing something?

I don't see where that parameter has anything to do with setting
hint bits; it only seems to affect the return code for the caller.

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