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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <[email protected]>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Cc: Ashutosh Bapat <[email protected]>
Cc: Maxim Orlov <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Korotkov <[email protected]>
Cc: wenhui qiu <[email protected]>
Cc: Postgres hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: POC: make mxidoff 64 bits
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2025 17:55:36 -0500
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Heikki Linnakangas <[email protected]> writes:
> Ok, I have pushed this. Thanks!

Coverity is unhappy about this bit:

/srv/coverity/git/pgsql-git/postgresql/src/bin/pg_upgrade/multixact_read_v18.c: 282             in GetOldMultiXactIdSingleMember()
276             if (!TransactionIdIsValid(*xactptr))
277             {
278                 /*
279                  * Corner case 2: we are looking at unused slot zero
280                  */
281                 if (offset == 0)
>>>     CID 1676077:         Control flow issues  (DEADCODE)
>>>     Execution cannot reach this statement: "continue;".
282                     continue;
283     
284                 /*
285                  * Otherwise this is an invalid entry that should not be

It sees the earlier test for offset == 0, and evidently is assuming
that the loop's "offset++" will not wrap around.  Now I think that
the point of this check is exactly that "offset++" could have wrapped
around, but the commentary is not so clear that I'm certain this is a
false positive.  If that is the intention, what do you think of
rephrasing this comment as "we have wrapped around to unused slot
zero"?

			regards, tom lane





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