Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Write a WAL record whenever we perform an operation without

Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>

From: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-02-01T10:36:59Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> Fujii Masao wrote:
>> The cause of the problem seems to be the new heap created by
>> rebuild_relation() and copy_heap_data(), i.e., new VACUUM FULL.
>> Since it's not a temporary heap, its rd_istemp is off. OTOH
>> it needs to be synced after physical copy from old heap.
>
> Why does it need to be synced?
>
> ISTM the bug is that rd_istemp is off at that point.

Umm... ISTM that new heap needs to be synced before calling
swap_relation_files(), but, in the now, I'm not sure whether
it's really required or not. Sorry.

Regards,

-- 
Fujii Masao
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