Bruce Momjian wrote: > Robert Haas wrote: > > >> Well, that won't work, because VACUUM can't be executed in a transaction > > >> block or function. > > > > > > Good point. > > > > > > The only bright part of this is that missing clog will throw an error so > > > we are not returning incorrect data, and hopefully people will report > > > problems to us when it happens. > > > > > > Ideally I would like to get this patch and correction code out into the > > > field in case more people run into this problem. ?I know some will, I > > > just don't know how many. > > > > ISTM we need to force a minor release once we are sure this has been > > corrected. We had also probably put out an announcement warning > > people that have already used pg_upgrade of possible data corruption. > > I'm not sure exactly what the language around that should be, but this > > does seem pretty bad. > > Yep, "pretty bad" it is.
The bug exists because I did not realize that the toast relfrozenxid is tracked independently of the heap, until the IRC report diagnosis. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
