pg_resetxlog: add option to set oldest xid & use by pg_upgrade
authorBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Tue, 27 Jul 2021 02:38:14 +0000 (22:38 -0400)
committerBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Tue, 27 Jul 2021 02:38:14 +0000 (22:38 -0400)
commit695b4a113abca380fd7aed26cefa039e4e8cd569
tree38003f07a1bda443adc47414bbb4ab0525fc2586
parent611e42444b121370f561d860552beb7d28dacbf8
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