BTW I hacked up pg_resetxlog a bit to make it generate the necessary
pg_multixact/offset file when -m is given. This is not acceptable for
commit because it duplicates the #defines from pg_multixact.c, but maybe
we want this functionality enough that we're interested in a more
complete version of this patch; also it unconditionally writes one zero
byte to the file, which is of course wrong if the file exists and
already contains data.
It'd be nice to be able to write this in a way that lets it work for all
existing SLRU users (pg_clog is the most common, but
pg_multixact/members and the predicate locking stuff might also be
useful). Not sure what would that look like.
Another consideration is that it doesn't remove existing files that are
outside of the new valid range according to freezing parameters and
such, but I'm not sure this is really doable considering that we might
need to change the relminmxid and datminmxid values, etc.
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