pgsql: Fix two distinct errors in creation of GIN_INSERT_LISTPAGE xlog

From: tgl(at)postgresql(dot)org (Tom Lane)
To: pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Fix two distinct errors in creation of GIN_INSERT_LISTPAGE xlog
Date: 2009-09-15 20:31:30
Message-ID: 20090915203130.C9BE8753FB7@cvs.postgresql.org
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-committers

Log Message:
-----------
Fix two distinct errors in creation of GIN_INSERT_LISTPAGE xlog records.
In practice these mistakes were always masked when full_page_writes was on,
because XLogInsert would always choose to log the full page, and then
ginRedoInsertListPage wouldn't try to do anything. But with full_page_writes
off a WAL replay failure was certain.

The GIN_INSERT_LISTPAGE record type could probably be eliminated entirely
in favor of using XLOG_HEAP_NEWPAGE, but I refrained from doing that now
since it would have required a significantly more invasive patch.

In passing do a little bit of code cleanup, including making the accounting
for free space on GIN list pages more precise. (This wasn't a bug as the
errors were always in the conservative direction.)

Per report from Simon. Back-patch to 8.4 which contains the identical code.

Modified Files:
--------------
pgsql/src/backend/access/gin:
ginfast.c (r1.3 -> r1.4)
(http://anoncvs.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/access/gin/ginfast.c?r1=1.3&r2=1.4)

Browse pgsql-committers by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Tom Lane 2009-09-15 20:31:35 pgsql: Fix two distinct errors in creation of GIN_INSERT_LISTPAGE xlog
Previous Message User Achernow 2009-09-15 17:35:40 libpqtypes - libpqtypes: prepared 1.3.4 release, fixed memory leak in