Re: pg_upgrade < 9.3 -> >=9.3 misses a step around multixacts

On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 11:03:53PM +0200, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2014-05-30 16:35:15 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 05:13:17PM +0200, Andres Freund wrote:
> > > It'd need to be clusters that used more multixacts than fit onto two
> > > slru offsets/ segments in < 9.2. Otherwise things will probably just
> > > continue to work because there's no hole.
> >
> > Do you mean <= 9.2 here for the old cluster?
>
> yes.
>
> > Multi-xacts were added in 9.3:
>
> That's not really correct. They were added in 8.2 or something...
>
> >         commit 0ac5ad5134f2769ccbaefec73844f8504c4d6182
> >         Author: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
> >         Date:   Wed Jan 23 12:04:59 2013 -0300
> >
> >             Improve concurrency of foreign key locking
>
> That just expanded the usage to also be able to track updated rows.

I guess I meant the new multixacts file format was in 9.3.

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