Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Write a WAL record whenever we perform an operation without

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Write a WAL record whenever we perform an operation without
Date: 2010-02-01 10:46:06
Message-ID: 1265021166.13782.11353.camel@ebony
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On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 12:30 +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Simon Riggs wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 12:11 +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> >> Simon Riggs wrote:
> >>> On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 11:33 +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> >>>> Can you reproduce that?
> >>> Every time
> >> Ok, good :-). What I really meant was: How?
> >
> > As mentioned in first post: VACUUM FULL and CLUSTER.
>
> I'm asking because I couldn't reproduce it. I added an elog(LOG) to
> XLogReportUnloggedStatement() so that I can see when an unlogged-record
> is written. Then I ran:
>
> CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE foo (id int4);
> VACUUM FULL foo;
>
> But XLogReportUnloggedStatement() was not executed. When I removed the
> "TEMPORARY" and tried again, it was executed.

drop table if exists foo;
create table foo (col1 serial, col2 text);
insert into foo (col2)
select repeat('a', 5000) from generate_series(1,1000);
create index on foo (col1);
cluster foo using foo_col1_idx;

So it appears this relates to toast tables.

--
Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com

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