Re: Speedup twophase transactions

Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>

From: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
To: Nikhil Sontakke <nikhils@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Stas Kelvich <s.kelvich@postgrespro.ru>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Jesper Pedersen <jesper.pedersen@redhat.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Date: 2017-01-26T23:53:52Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 5:02 PM, Nikhil Sontakke
<nikhils@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>>> Umm, AFAICS, CheckPointTwoPhase() does not get called in the "standby
>>> promote" code path.
>>
>> CreateRestartPoint() calls it via CheckPointGuts() while in recovery.
>
> May be that I am missing something.
>
> But, I put the recovery process and the checkpointer process of the
> standby under gdb with breakpoints on these functions, but both did
> not hit CreateRestartPoint() as well as CheckPointGuts() when I issued
> a promote :-|

No end-of-recovery checkpoints happen at promotion since 9.3. You can
still use fallback_promote as promote file to trigger the pre-9.2 (9.2
included) behavior.
-- 
Michael


Commits

  1. Speedup 2PC recovery by skipping two phase state files in normal path

  2. Add tests for two-phase commit

  3. Improve grammar of message about two-phase state files.

  4. Speedup 2PC by skipping two phase state files in normal path