Re: POC: make mxidoff 64 bits

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От Maxim Orlov
Тема Re: POC: make mxidoff 64 bits
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Msg-id CACG=ezZwdvsijzuXE3hex3xHcoz75EQYBXRTsQJVwbo5J5sS3g@mail.gmail.com
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Ответ на Re: POC: make mxidoff 64 bits  (Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>)
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On Thu, 2 Jan 2025 at 01:12, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> wrote:

It might be best to just refuse the upgrade if oldestOffsetKnown==false.
It's a very ancient corner case. It seems reasonable to require you to
upgrade to a newer minor version and run VACUUM before upgrading. IIRC
that sets oldestOffsetKnown.
 
I agree.  After all, we do already have a ready-made solution in the form of a vacuum, do we?

If I understand all this multixact_old.c machinery correctly, in case of oldestOffsetKnown==false
we should fail with "could not open file" or offset will be 0 in GetOldMultiXactIdSingleMember.
So, I suppose we can put an analogue of SimpleLruDoesPhysicalPageExist call in the beginning
of GetOldMultiXactIdSingleMember. And if either SimpleLruDoesPhysicalPageExist return false
or a corresponding offset will be 0 we have to bail out with "oldest offset does not exist, consider
running vacuum before pg_upgrdade" or smth. Please, correct me if I'm wrong.

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Best regards,
Maxim Orlov.

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