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    Separate multixact freezing parameters from xid's · 801c2dc7
    Alvaro Herrera authored
    Previously we were piggybacking on transaction ID parameters to freeze
    multixacts; but since there isn't necessarily any relationship between
    rates of Xid and multixact consumption, this turns out not to be a good
    idea.
    
    Therefore, we now have multixact-specific freezing parameters:
    
    vacuum_multixact_freeze_min_age: when to remove multis as we come across
    them in vacuum (default to 5 million, i.e. early in comparison to Xid's
    default of 50 million)
    
    vacuum_multixact_freeze_table_age: when to force whole-table scans
    instead of scanning only the pages marked as not all visible in
    visibility map (default to 150 million, same as for Xids).  Whichever of
    both which reaches the 150 million mark earlier will cause a whole-table
    scan.
    
    autovacuum_multixact_freeze_max_age: when for cause emergency,
    uninterruptible whole-table scans (default to 400 million, double as
    that for Xids).  This means there shouldn't be more frequent emergency
    vacuuming than previously, unless multixacts are being used very
    rapidly.
    
    Backpatch to 9.3 where multixacts were made to persist enough to require
    freezing.  To avoid an ABI break in 9.3, VacuumStmt has a couple of
    fields in an unnatural place, and StdRdOptions is split in two so that
    the newly added fields can go at the end.
    
    Patch by me, reviewed by Robert Haas, with additional input from Andres
    Freund and Tom Lane.
    801c2dc7
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