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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: jim_yates <pg@wg5jim.net>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: could not access status of transaction pg_multixact issue
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2014 17:54:16 -0300
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jim_yates wrote:

> > A better way not involving mxid_age() would be to use pg_controldata to
> > extract the current value of the mxid counter, then subtract the current
> > relminmxid from that value.
> 
> 
> It's not clear which lines from pg_controldata to use for updating
> pg_database.datminmxid.

The one labelled NextMultiXactId.

> I also assume I would do the pg_database update on a idle database.

It doesn't matter, actually.  pg_database is a shared catalog, so an
update would affect all the databases.

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Álvaro Herrera                http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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