Re: backup manifests

Suraj Kharage <suraj.kharage@enterprisedb.com>

From: Suraj Kharage <suraj.kharage@enterprisedb.com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Rushabh Lathia <rushabh.lathia@gmail.com>, Tels <nospam-pg-abuse@bloodgate.com>, David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Jeevan Chalke <jeevan.chalke@enterprisedb.com>, vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com>
Date: 2019-12-17T05:54:46Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

Commits

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  1. Try to avoid compiler warnings in optimized builds.

  2. Fix option related issues in pg_verifybackup.

  3. Add index term for backup manifest in documentation.

  4. Code review for backup manifest.

  5. Document the backup manifest file format.

  6. Fix typo in pg_validatebackup documentation.

  7. Exclude backup_manifest file that existed in database, from BASE_BACKUP.

  8. Msys2 tweaks for pg_validatebackup corruption test

  9. Fix resource management bug with replication=database.

  10. Be more careful about time_t vs. pg_time_t in basebackup.c.

  11. pg_validatebackup: Fix 'make clean' to remove tmp_check.

  12. pg_validatebackup: Also use perl2host in TAP tests.

  13. Generate backup manifests for base backups, and validate them.

  14. Add checksum helper functions.

  15. pg_waldump: Add a --quiet option.

  16. Catversion bump for b9b408c48724

  17. pg_basebackup: Refactor code for reading COPY and tar data.

  18. Use a ResourceOwner to track buffer pins in all cases.

  19. Use ARMv8 CRC instructions where available.

  20. Logical replication support for initial data copy

  21. Use Intel SSE 4.2 CRC instructions where available.

  22. Switch to CRC-32C in WAL and other places.

  23. Remove support for 64-bit CRC.

  24. Change CRCs in WAL records from 64bit to 32bit for performance reasons.

Attachments

Hi,


> I think that what we should actually do here is try to use simplehash.
>> Right now, it won't work for frontend code, but I posted some patches
>> to try to address that issue:
>>
>>
>> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CA%2BTgmob8oyh02NrZW%3DxCScB%2B5GyJ-jVowE3%2BTWTUmPF%3DFsGWTA%40mail.gmail.com
>>
>> That would have a few advantages. One, we wouldn't need to know the
>> number of elements in advance, because simplehash can grow
>> dynamically. Two, we could use the iteration interfaces to walk the
>> hash table.  Your solution to that is pgrhash_seq_search, but that's
>> actually not well-designed, because it's not a generic iterator
>> function but something that knows specifically about the 'touch' flag.
>> I incidentally suggest renaming 'touch' to 'matched;' 'touch' is not
>> bad, but I think 'matched' will be a little more recognizable.
>>
>
> Thanks for the suggestion. Will try to implement the same and update
> accordingly.
> I am assuming that I need to build the patch based on the changes that you
> proposed on the mentioned thread.
>
>

I have implemented the simplehash in backup validator patch as Robert
suggested. Please find attached 0002 patch for the same.

kindly review and let me know your thoughts.

Also attached the remaining patches. 0001 and 0003 are same as v2, only
patch version is bumped.


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Thanks & Regards,
Suraj kharage,
EnterpriseDB Corporation,
The Postgres Database Company.