Re: The case against multixact GUCs

On 2014-04-16 11:25:49 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> On 04/16/2014 11:22 AM, Andres Freund wrote:
> >> I'm serious.  The multixact stuff has been broken since 9.3
> >> was released, and it's *still* broken. We can't give users any guidance
> >> or tools on how to set multixact stuff, and autovacuum doesn't handle it
> >> properly.
> > 
> > Sorry, but I think you're blowing some GUCs *WAY* out of proportion.
> 
> I'm not talking about the GUCs.

That was about:
"We can't give users any guidance or tools on how to set multixact
stuff, and autovacuum doesn't handle it properly."

> I'm talking about the data corruption bugs.

That was covered by "at this point ripping this out seems likely to
cause many more bugs than it would solve".

> Including the new one this week.

Lets hold our horses a bit, we don't know what's happening there for
now.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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