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From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>
To: pgsql-committers@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: pgsql: Check that oldestXID and oldestMulti are consistent at pg_upgrad
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2026 21:32:54 +0000
Message-ID: <E1x7gCU-00000000JVJ-2Y9y@gemulon.postgresql.org> (raw)

Check that oldestXID and oldestMulti are consistent at pg_upgrade

Now that pg_upgrade will rewrite multixid members, starting from
oldestMulti, it's important that oldestMulti is valid.  Add a sanity
check that oldestMulti is not newer than the oldest datminmxid value
in pg_database.

One case where this could happen is if the cluster was previously
upgraded to version 9.3 with a buggy pg_upgrade version that didn't
have commit a61daa14d5.  This new pg_upgrade check is similar to the
defence that was added in commit 78db307bb2 to VACUUM to avoid
truncating away multixids if oldestMulti is too new.  This pg_upgrade
check differs in that we don't try to soldier on with the upgrade if
the oldestMultiXID is inconsistent, but rather just abort the upgrade.

Reported-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20260827231757.78.noahmisch@microsoft.com
Backpatch-through: 19

Branch
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master

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/7b879c485243e61a0d4cb169717a8e96e9e875c2

Modified Files
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src/backend/access/transam/multixact.c | 28 --------------
src/bin/pg_upgrade/check.c             | 71 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
src/include/access/multixact.h         | 31 +++++++++++++--
3 files changed, 99 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)



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