On Sun, May 12, 2024 at 7:29 PM Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> wrote:
> - [consequences limited to transient failure] Since a PROC_IN_VACUUM backend's
> xmin does not stop pruning, an MVCC scan in that backend can find zero
> tuples when one is live. This is like what all backends got in the days of
> SnapshotNow catalog scans. See the pgbench test suite addition. (Perhaps
> the fix is to make VACUUM do its MVCC scans outside of PROC_IN_VACUUM,
> setting that flag later and unsetting it earlier.)
Are you saying that this is a problem already, or that the patch
causes it to start happening? If it's the former, that's horrible. If
it's the latter, I'd say that is a fatal defect.
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Robert Haas
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