Re: Speedup twophase transactions

Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>
To: Stas Kelvich <s.kelvich@postgrespro.ru>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2015-12-10T19:47:30Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 9 December 2015 at 18:44, Stas Kelvich <s.kelvich@postgrespro.ru> wrote:


> In this patch I’ve changed this procedures to following:
> * on prepare backend writes data only to xlog and store pointer to the
> start of the xlog record
> * if commit occurs before checkpoint then backend reads data from xlog by
> this pointer
> * on checkpoint 2pc data copied to files and fsynced
> * if commit happens after checkpoint then backend reads files
> * in case of crash replay will move data from xlog to files (as it was
> before patch)
>

This looks sound to me.

I think we could do better still, but this looks like the easiest 80% and
actually removes code.

The lack of substantial comments on the patch is a problem though - the
details above should go in the patch. I'll have a go at reworking this for
you, this time.

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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