Do not emit WAL for unlogged BRIN indexes
Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>
Do not emit WAL for unlogged BRIN indexes
Operations on unlogged relations should not be WAL-logged. The
brin_initialize_empty_new_buffer() function didn't get the memo.
The function is only called when a concurrent update to a brin page
uses up space that we're just about to insert to, which makes it
pretty hard to hit. If you do manage to hit it, a full-page WAL record
is erroneously emitted for the unlogged index. If you then crash,
crash recovery will fail on that record with an error like this:
FATAL: could not create file "base/5/32819": File exists
Author: Kirill Reshke <reshkekirill@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CALdSSPhpZXVFnWjwEBNcySx_vXtXHwB2g99gE6rK0uRJm-3GgQ@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 14
Files
| Path | Change | +/− |
|---|---|---|
| src/backend/access/brin/brin_pageops.c | modified | +5 −1 |
Discussion
- Do not emit FPW for unlogged relations in BRIN empty-page 2 messages · 2025-12-17 → 2025-12-18