Re: recovering from "found xmin ... from before relfrozenxid ..."

On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 9:19 PM Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 7:36 AM Ashutosh Sharma <ashu.coek88@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Removed this note from the documentation and added a note saying: "The
> > user needs to ensure that they do not operate pg_force_freeze function
> > on a deleted tuple because it may revive the deleted tuple."
>
> I do not agree with that note, either. I believe that trying to tell
> people what things specifically they should do or avoid doing with the
> tool is the wrong approach. Instead, the thrust of the message should
> be to tell people that if you use this, it may corrupt your database,
> and that's your problem. The difficulty with telling people what
> specifically they ought to avoid doing is that experts will be annoyed
> to be told that something is not safe when they know that it is fine,
> and non-experts will think that some uses are safer than they really
> are.
>

Okay, point noted.

Thanks,

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With Regards,
Ashutosh Sharma
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