Re: MultiXact truncation, startup et al.

On 2013-11-29 13:26:00 -0800, Kevin Grittner wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>
> > New versions of all these patches, plus one more patch which
> > removes the behavior that HeapTupleGetUpdateXid checks for
> > aborted updates. (Turns out this was necessary to get freezing
> > right.)  My previous patch to avoid InvalidXid as page prune
> > point is reverted in there, too (no longer necessary.)
>
> Does this mean that when HeapTupleSatisfiesVacuum() returns
> HEAPTUPLE_DELETE_IN_PROGRESS it is no longer possible for
> HeapTupleHeaderGetUpdateXid() to return InvalidTransactionId?

Correct.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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