postgresql/contrib/pg_visibility/Makefile
Alexander Korotkov e85662df44 Fix false reports in pg_visibility
Currently, pg_visibility computes its xid horizon using the
GetOldestNonRemovableTransactionId().  The problem is that this horizon can
sometimes go backward.  That can lead to reporting false errors.

In order to fix that, this commit implements a new function
GetStrictOldestNonRemovableTransactionId().  This function computes the xid
horizon, which would be guaranteed to be newer or equal to any xid horizon
computed before.

We have to do the following to achieve this.

1. Ignore processes xmin's, because they consider connection to other databases
   that were ignored before.
2. Ignore KnownAssignedXids, because they are not database-aware. At the same
   time, the primary could compute its horizons database-aware.
3. Ignore walsender xmin, because it could go backward if some replication
   connections don't use replication slots.

As a result, we're using only currently running xids to compute the horizon.
Surely these would significantly sacrifice accuracy.  But we have to do so to
avoid reporting false errors.

Inspired by earlier patch by Daniel Shelepanov and the following discussion
with Robert Haas and Tom Lane.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1649062270.289865713%40f403.i.mail.ru
Reviewed-by: Alexander Lakhin, Dmitry Koval
2024-03-14 13:12:05 +02:00

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# contrib/pg_visibility/Makefile
MODULE_big = pg_visibility
OBJS = \
$(WIN32RES) \
pg_visibility.o
EXTENSION = pg_visibility
DATA = pg_visibility--1.1.sql pg_visibility--1.1--1.2.sql \
pg_visibility--1.0--1.1.sql
PGFILEDESC = "pg_visibility - page visibility information"
REGRESS = pg_visibility
TAP_TESTS = 1
ifdef USE_PGXS
PG_CONFIG = pg_config
PGXS := $(shell $(PG_CONFIG) --pgxs)
include $(PGXS)
else
subdir = contrib/pg_visibility
top_builddir = ../..
include $(top_builddir)/src/Makefile.global
include $(top_srcdir)/contrib/contrib-global.mk
endif