pg_resetxlog: add option to set oldest xid & use by pg_upgrade
authorBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Tue, 27 Jul 2021 02:38:15 +0000 (22:38 -0400)
committerBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Tue, 27 Jul 2021 02:38:15 +0000 (22:38 -0400)
commit74cf7d46a91d601e0f8d957a7edbaeeb7df83efc
treed39d0b0cd9b4b817e7ab7be03082509aede1f95f
parent24ba1a87e4056ec34c8a685633a1a14fb89e5700
pg_resetxlog:  add option to set oldest xid & use by pg_upgrade

Add pg_resetxlog -u option to set the oldest xid in pg_control.
Previously -x set this value be -2 billion less than the -x value.
However, this causes the server to immediately scan all relation's
relfrozenxid so it can advance pg_control's oldest xid to be inside the
autovacuum_freeze_max_age range, which is inefficient and might disrupt
diagnostic recovery.  pg_upgrade will use this option to better create
the new cluster to match the old cluster.

Reported-by: Jason Harvey, Floris Van Nee
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190615183759.GB239428@rfd.leadboat.com, 87da83168c644fd9aae38f546cc70295@opammb0562.comp.optiver.com

Author: Bertrand Drouvot

Backpatch-through: 9.6
doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_resetwal.sgml
src/bin/pg_resetwal/pg_resetwal.c
src/bin/pg_upgrade/controldata.c
src/bin/pg_upgrade/pg_upgrade.c
src/bin/pg_upgrade/pg_upgrade.h