Re: ERROR: cannot GetMultiXactIdMembers() during recovery

Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > Marko Tiikkaja wrote:
> >> Any chance to get this fixed in time for 9.1.16?
> 
> > I hope you had pinged some days earlier.  Here's a patch, but I will
> > wait until this week's releases have been tagged before pushing.
> 
> Is this a recent regression, or has it been busted all along in those
> branches?
> 
> If the former, maybe we should take the risk of fixing it today
> (the patch certainly looks safe enough).  But if it's been this
> way a long time and nobody noticed till now, I'd agree with waiting.

Hmm, AFAICS the problematic check was introduced by this commit:

commit 9f1e051adefb2f29e757cf426b03db20d3f8a26d
Author: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Date:   Fri Nov 29 11:26:41 2013 -0300

so it isn't hot off the oven, but it is a regression.

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