If vacuum fails to prune a tuple killed before OldestXmin, it will decide to freeze its xmax and later error out in pre-freeze checks. Add a test reproducing this scenario to the recovery suite which creates a table on a primary, updates the table to generate dead tuples for vacuum, and then, during the vacuum, uses a replica to force GlobalVisState->maybe_needed on the primary to move backwards and precede the value of OldestXmin set at the beginning of vacuuming the table. This test is coverage for a case fixed in83c39a1f7f
. The test was originally committed to master inaa607980ae
but later reverted inefcbb76efe
due to test instability. The test requires multiple index passes. In Postgres 17+, vacuum uses a TID store for the dead TIDs that is very space efficient. With the old minimum maintenance_work_mem of 1 MB, it required a large number of dead rows to generate enough dead TIDs to force multiple index vacuuming passes. Once the source code changes were made to allow a minimum maintenance_work_mem value of 64kB, the test could be made much faster and more stable. Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: John Naylor <johncnaylorls@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAKRu_ZJBkidusDut6i%3DbDCiXzJEp93GC1%2BNFaZt4eqanYF3Kw%40mail.gmail.com Backpatch-through: 17
PostgreSQL Database Management System
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