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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
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README.md

PostgreSQL Database Management System

This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL database management system.

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions. This distribution also contains C language bindings.

Copyright and license information can be found in the file COPYRIGHT.

General documentation about this version of PostgreSQL can be found at: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/
In particular, information about building PostgreSQL from the source code can be found at: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/installation.html

The latest version of this software, and related software, may be obtained at https://www.postgresql.org/download/. For more information look at our web site located at https://www.postgresql.org/.