On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 4:33 AM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote:
> However, there are cases where not even that is possible -- consider
> tuple freezing during WAL recovery. Recovery is going to need to
> replace those multis with other multis, but it cannot create new multis
> itself. The only solution here appears to be that when multis are
> frozen in the master, replacement multis have to be logged too. So the
> heap_freeze_tuple Xlog record will have a map of old multi to new. That
> way, recovery can just determine the new multi to use for any particular
> old multi; since multixact creation is also logged, we're certain that
> the replacement value has already been defined.
Multixacts are ignored during recovery. Why do anything at all?
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