Re: Key management with tests

Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>

To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>

Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>, Tom Kincaid <tomjohnkincaid@gmail.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Masahiko Sawada <masahiko.sawada@2ndquadrant.com>

Date: 2021-03-18T17:21:52Z

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Rethink method for assigning OIDs to the template0 and postgres DBs.
- 2cb1272445d2 15.0 landed
pg_upgrade: Preserve database OIDs.
- aa01051418f1 15.0 landed
pg_upgrade: Preserve relfilenodes and tablespace OIDs.
- 9a974cbcba00 15.0 landed
Fix for new Boolean node
- cf925936ecc0 15.0 cited
Improve error handling of HMAC computations
- 5513dc6a304d 15.0 cited
Add macro RelationIsPermanent() to report relation permanence
- 95d77149c535 14.0 landed
Enhance nbtree index tuple deletion.
- d168b666823b 14.0 cited

Greetings,

* Alvaro Herrera (alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org) wrote:
> Patch 10 uses the term "WAL-skip relations".  What does that mean?  Is
> it "relations that are not WAL-logged"?  I suppose we already have a
> term for this; I'm not sure it's a good idea to invent a different term
> that is only used in this new place.

This is discussed in src/backend/access/transam/README, specifically the
section that talks about Skipping WAL for New RelFileNode.  Basically,
it's the 'wal_level=minimal' optimization which allows WAL to be
skipped.

Thanks!

Stephen