Re: pg_subtrans keeps bloating up in the standby

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, "Kolb, Harald (NSN - DE/Munich)" <harald.kolb@nsn.com>
Date: 2010-08-27T17:08:38Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> writes:
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
> <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>> Hmm, agreed, seems like an oversight in hot standby. Before that, we didn't
>> update pg_subtrans during recovery, so there was no point truncating it. But
>> in hot standby, we do update it, so we need to truncate it too.

> Yes. The attached patch changes a restartpoint so that it truncates pg_subtrans
> when hot standby is enabled.

Has StartupSUBTRANS been done?

			regards, tom lane