Re: crash-safe visibility map, take four

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Gokulakannan Somasundaram <gokul007@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2011-03-23T04:21:53Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:59 PM, Gokulakannan Somasundaram
<gokul007@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I took a crack at implementing the first approach described above,
>> which seems to be by far the simplest idea we've come up with to date.
>>  Patch attached.  It doesn't seem to be that complicated, which could
>> mean either that it's not that complicated or that I'm missing
>> something.  Feel free to point and snicker in the latter case.
>>
> Hi,
>     I suppose the problem is not with setting the bit, but resetting the
> bit. Has that been completed already?
> Thanks.

All operations that clear the bit area are already WAL-logged.

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