Root Cause Analysis: PostgreSQL MultiXact member exhaustion incidents

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templaedhel · 12h ago

Hey I'm Cosmo, I wrote this post and lead eng @ Metronome. Happy to answer any questions here. It was a long week for us but I'm glad we got the option to learn and share this relatively novel failure mode.

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Root Cause Analysis: PostgreSQL MultiXact member exhaustion incidents

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