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

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, 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: 2022-03-31T14:05:10Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 3:52 AM Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com> wrote:
> 0001 is changing the strategy to file copy during initdb and 0002
> patch adds the test cases for both these cases.

IMHO, 0001 looks fine, except for needing some adjustments to the wording.

I'm less sure about 0002. It's testing the stuff Andres mentioned, but
I'm not sure how good the tests are.

Andres, thoughts? Do you want me to polish and commit 0001?

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Robert Haas
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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.