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

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>, Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-06-17T19:20:03Z
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On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 2:48 PM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> Or do you mean that looking at the filesystem at all is bypassing shared
> buffers?

This is what I mean. I think we will end up in a better spot if we can
avoid doing that without creating too much ugliness elsewhere.

-- 
Robert Haas
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com

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.