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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: Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, 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>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-03-31T18:31:43Z
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On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 12:25 PM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> > Andres, thoughts? Do you want me to polish and commit 0001?
>
> Yes please!

Here is a polished version. Comments?

> FWIW, once the freeze is done I'm planning to set up scripting to see which
> parts of the code we whacked around don't have test coverage...

Sounds terrifying.

-- 
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.