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The age of OldestXmin (a.k.a. "removable cutoff") when VACUUM ends often indicates the approximate number of XIDs consumed while VACUUM ran. However, there is at least one important exception: the cutoff could be held back by a snapshot that was acquired before our VACUUM even began. Successive VACUUM operations may even use exactly the same old cutoff in extreme cases involving long held snapshots. The log messages that described how removable cutoff aged (which were added by commit 872770fd) created the impression that we were reporting on how VACUUM's usable cutoff advanced while VACUUM ran, which was misleading in these extreme cases. Fix by using a more general wording. Per gripe from Tom Lane. In passing, relocate related instrumentation code for clarity. Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1643035.1650035653@sss.pgh.pa.us
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