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A snapshot taken during recovery stores all of its in-progress XIDs in
subxip, every running top-level XID included, leaving xip empty. Unlike
with other snapshots, its suboverflowed flag does not mean that subxip
is redundant. We nevertheless treated it that way during snapshot
export, so an importing session could see in-progress transactions as
aborted. This misbehavior could also lead to hint bits being
incorrectly set on the standby; affected tuples then wrongly appeared
visible or invisible to sessions that never imported the snapshot.
To fix, teach snapshot export to include the subxip[] array regardless
of the overflow flag when the snapshot is taken during recovery. This
is in line with how CopySnapshot() and SerializeSnapshot() already
handle the same issue.
Claude Code diagnosed this problem. The committed TAP test is a
simplified version of the one that it wrote to demonstrate this bug.
Oversight in commit 6c2003f8a, which enabled snapshot export and import
during recovery.
Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Author: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
Bug: #17846
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzmHVeYY%3Dpjz9x8DhhxVjXHX0pvoQ-MdiB1Tt6%3Do2GTiKg%40mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17846-1a0e5ce976f4c01a@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 14
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