Re: [Proposal] Fully WAL logged CREATE DATABASE - No Checkpoints

Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>

From: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Ashutosh Sharma <ashu.coek88@gmail.com>, Maciek Sakrejda <m.sakrejda@gmail.com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Date: 2022-08-04T20:47:07Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Thu, Aug 04, 2022 at 04:07:01PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> I'm inclined to hold off on committing this until next week, not only

+1

I don't see any reason to hurry to fix problems that occur when DROP DATABASE
is interrupted.

Sorry to beat up your patches so much and for such crappy test cases^C

-- 
Justin



Commits

  1. When using the WAL-logged CREATE DATABASE strategy, bulk extend.

  2. Avoid using a fake relcache entry to own an SmgrRelation.

  3. Fix data-corruption hazard in WAL-logged CREATE DATABASE.

  4. initdb: When running CREATE DATABASE, use STRATEGY = WAL_COPY.

  5. Simplify a needlessly-complicated regular expression.

  6. In 020_createdb.pl, change order of command-line arguments.

  7. Add new block-by-block strategy for CREATE DATABASE.

  8. Fix replay of create database records on standby

  9. Refactor code for reading and writing relation map files.

  10. Replace RelationOpenSmgr() with RelationGetSmgr().

  11. Refactor the fsync queue for wider use.