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Re: Speedup twophase transactions

Nikhil Sontakke <nikhils@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Nikhil Sontakke <nikhils@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.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: 2017-01-27T09:59:07Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
>> 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.

Ok, so that means, we also need to fsync out these 2PC XIDs at promote
time as well for their durability.

Regards,
Nikhils
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 Nikhil Sontakke                   http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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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