On Tue, May 2, 2023 at 9:55 AM Peter Geoghegan <
pg@bowt.ie> wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 1, 2023 at 5:34 AM John Naylor <
john.naylor@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> > 0003 is now a quick-and-dirty attempt at that, only in the docs. The MXID part is mostly copy-pasted from the XID part, just to get something together. I'd like to abbreviate that somehow.
>
> Yeah, the need to abbreviate statements about MultiXact IDs by saying
> that they work analogously to XIDs in some particular respect
> is...another thing that makes this tricky.
Then it sounds like they should stay separate. A direct copy-paste is not good for style, so I will add things like:
- If for some reason autovacuum fails to clear old MXIDs from a table, the
+ As in the case with XIDs, it is possible for autovacuum to fail to [...]
It might least be good for readability to gloss over the warning and only quote the MXID limit error message, but we'll have to see how it looks.
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