Re: [CORE] back-branch multixact fixes & 9.5 alpha/beta: schedule

Josh Berkus wrote:
> On 06/08/2015 12:48 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > Well, reputation-wise we're already losing every time somebody's server
> > crashes on 9.4.2 and finds it won't start, where it did start fine with
> > 9.4.1.  Maybe they simply wanted to change shared_buffers and the server
> > won't start anymore.  Some people even update binaries with the server
> > running; if they don't restart immediately, it could be several days
> > before it fails to start.  It's pretty scary.
> 
> I'm confused by this discussion.  9.4.3 is released.

The bug was not fixed by 9.4.3.  It was fixed by this commit:

Author: Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>
Branch: master [068cfadf9] 2015-06-05 09:31:57 -0400
Branch: REL9_4_STABLE [b6a3444fa] 2015-06-05 09:33:52 -0400
Branch: REL9_3_STABLE [2a9b01928] 2015-06-05 09:34:15 -0400
   Cope with possible failure of the oldest MultiXact to exist.


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