On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> B. We need to change find_multixact_start() to fail softly. > >> Here is an experimental WIP patch that changes StartupMultiXact and >> SetMultiXactIdLimit to find the oldest multixact that exists on disk >> (by scanning the directory), and uses that if it is more recent than >> the oldestMultiXactId from shmem, > > Not sure about the details of this patch, but I was planning to propose > what I think is the same thing: the way to make find_multixact_start() > fail softly is to have it find the oldest actually existing file if the > one that should be there isn't. Working on that now. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
