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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Serge Negodyuck <petr@petrovich.kiev.ua>
Cc: pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: BUG #8673: Could not open file "pg_multixact/members/xxxx" on slave during hot_standby
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 14:10:22 -0400
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> I wasn't able to reproduce it that way, but I eventually figured out
> that if I altered altered the plpython function to grab a FOR NO KEY
> UPDATE lock first, insertion would grow the multixact beyond reasonable
> limits; see the attachment.  If you then INSERT many tuples in "product"
> in a single transaction, the resulting xmax is a Multixact that has as
> many members as inserts there are, plus one.

Bah.  I managed to submit a file with the lock_company() call commented
out in the plpython function.  That one doesn't do anything interesting;
you need to uncomment that line.

-- 
Álvaro Herrera                http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services


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