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Separate multixact freezing parameters from xid's
Previously we were piggybacking on transaction ID parameters to freeze multixacts; but since there isn't necessarily any relationship between rates of Xid and multixact consumption, this turns out not to be a good idea. Therefore, we now have multixact-specific freezing parameters: vacuum_multixact_freeze_min_age: when to remove multis as we come across them in vacuum (default to 5 million, i.e. early in comparison to Xid's default of 50 million) vacuum_multixact_freeze_table_age: when to force whole-table scans instead of scanning only the pages marked as not all visible in visibility map (default to 150 million, same as for Xids). Whichever of both which reaches the 150 million mark earlier will cause a whole-table scan. autovacuum_multixact_freeze_max_age: when for cause emergency, uninterruptible whole-table scans (default to 400 million, double as that for Xids). This means there shouldn't be more frequent emergency vacuuming than previously, unless multixacts are being used very rapidly. Backpatch to 9.3 where multixacts were made to persist enough to require freezing. To avoid an ABI break in 9.3, VacuumStmt has a couple of fields in an unnatural place, and StdRdOptions is split in two so that the newly added fields can go at the end. Patch by me, reviewed by Robert Haas, with additional input from Andres Freund and Tom Lane.
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<listitem>
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<simpara>To protect against loss of very old data due to
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<firstterm>transaction ID wraparound</>.</simpara>
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<firstterm>transaction ID wraparound</> or
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<firstterm>multixact ID wraparound</>.</simpara>
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</listitem>
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</orderedlist>
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<secondary>wraparound</secondary>
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</indexterm>
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<indexterm>
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<primary>wraparound</primary>
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<secondary>of transaction IDs</secondary>
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</indexterm>
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<para>
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<productname>PostgreSQL</productname>'s MVCC transaction semantics
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depend on being able to compare transaction ID (<acronym>XID</>)
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@@ -597,6 +603,54 @@ HINT: Stop the postmaster and vacuum that database in single-user mode.
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page for details about using single-user mode.
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</para>
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<sect3 id="vacuum-for-multixact-wraparound">
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<title>Multixacts and Wraparound</title>
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<indexterm>
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<primary>MultiXactId</primary>
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</indexterm>
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<indexterm>
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<primary>wraparound</primary>
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<secondary>of multixact IDs</secondary>
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</indexterm>
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<para>
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<firstterm>Multixacts</> are used to implement row locking by
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multiple transactions: since there is limited space in the tuple
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header to store lock information, that information is stored as a
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multixact separately in the <filename>pg_multixact</> subdirectory,
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and only its ID is in the <structfield>xmax</> field
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in the tuple header.
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Similar to transaction IDs, multixact IDs are implemented as a
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32-bit counter and corresponding storage, all of which requires
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careful aging management, storage cleanup, and wraparound handling.
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</para>
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<para>
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During a <command>VACUUM</> table scan, either partial or of the whole
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table, any multixact ID older than
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<xref linkend="guc-vacuum-multixact-freeze-min-age">
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is replaced by a different value, which can be the zero value, a single
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transaction ID, or a newer multixact ID. For each table,
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<structname>pg_class</>.<structfield>relminmxid</> stores the oldest
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possible value still stored in any tuple of that table. Every time this
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value is older than
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<xref linkend="guc-vacuum-multixact-freeze-table-age">, a whole-table
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scan is forced. Whole-table <command>VACUUM</> scans, regardless of
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what causes them, enable advancing the value for that table.
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Eventually, as all tables in all databases are scanned and their
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oldest multixact values are advanced, on-disk storage for older
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multixacts can be removed.
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</para>
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<para>
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As a safety device, a whole-table vacuum scan will occur for any table
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whose multixact-age is greater than
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<xref linkend="guc-autovacuum-multixact-freeze-max-age">.
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This will occur even if autovacuum is nominally disabled.
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</para>
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</sect3>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="autovacuum">
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