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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: Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, 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: 2022-03-29T15:55:05Z
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On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 3:08 PM Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> smgrcreate() as we would for most WAL records or whether it should be
> adopting the new system introduced by
> 49d9cfc68bf4e0d32a948fe72d5a0ef7f464944e. I wrote about this concern
> over here:
>
> http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoYcUPL+WOJL2ZzhH=zmrhj0iOQ=iCFM0SuYqBbqZEamEg@mail.gmail.com
>
> But apart from that question your adaptations here look reasonable to me.

That commit having been reverted, I committed v6 instead. Let's see
what breaks...

-- 
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.