Simon Riggs wrote:
> On 15 May 2015 at 19:03, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>
> > Andres Freund wrote:
> >
> > > Alternatively we could make MultiXactIdIsRunning() return false < 9.3
> > > when in recovery. I think that'd end up fixing things, but it seems
> > > awfully fragile to me.
> >
> > Hm, why fragile? It seems a pretty decent answer -- pre-9.3, it's not
> > possible for a tuple to be "locked" in recovery, is it? I mean, in the
> > standby you can't lock it nor update it; the only thing you can do is
> > read (select), and that is not affected by whether there is a multixact
> > in it.
>
> It can't return true and won't ever change for <9.3 so I don't see what the
> objection is.
Pushed.
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