InnoDB originally skipped the redo logging of PAGE_MAX_TRX_ID changes
until I enabled it in commit e76b873f
that was part of MySQL 5.5.5 already.

Later, when a more complete history of the InnoDB Plugin for MySQL 5.1
(aka branches/zip in the InnoDB subversion repository) and of the
planned-to-be closed-source branches/innodb+ that became the basis of
InnoDB in MySQL 5.5 was pushed to the MySQL source repository, the
change was part of commit 509e761f:

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 r5038 | marko | 2009-05-19 22:59:07 +0300 (Tue, 19 May 2009) | 30 lines

 branches/zip: Write PAGE_MAX_TRX_ID to the redo log. Otherwise,
 transactions that are started before the rollback of incomplete
 transactions has finished may have an inconsistent view of the
 secondary indexes.

 dict_index_is_sec_or_ibuf(): Auxiliary function for controlling
 updates and checks of PAGE_MAX_TRX_ID: check whether an index is a
 secondary index or the insert buffer tree.

 page_set_max_trx_id(), page_update_max_trx_id(),
 lock_rec_insert_check_and_lock(),
 lock_sec_rec_modify_check_and_lock(), btr_cur_ins_lock_and_undo(),
 btr_cur_upd_lock_and_undo(): Add the parameter mtr.

 page_set_max_trx_id(): Allow mtr to be NULL.  When mtr==NULL, do not
 attempt to write to the redo log.  This only occurs when creating a
 page or reorganizing a compressed page.  In these cases, the
 PAGE_MAX_TRX_ID will be set correctly during the application of redo
 log records, even though there is no explicit log record about it.

 btr_discard_only_page_on_level(): Preserve PAGE_MAX_TRX_ID.  This
 function should be unreachable, though.

 btr_cur_pessimistic_update(): Update PAGE_MAX_TRX_ID.

 Add some assertions for checking that PAGE_MAX_TRX_ID is set on all
 secondary index leaf pages.

 rb://115 tested by Michael, fixes Issue #211
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After this fix, some bogus references to recv_recovery_is_on()
remained. Also, some references could be replaced with
references to index->is_dummy to prepare us for MDEV-14481
(background redo log apply).