Re: pg_subtrans keeps bloating up in the standby

From: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Kolb, Harald (NSN - DE/Munich)" <harald(dot)kolb(at)nsn(dot)com>
Subject: Re: pg_subtrans keeps bloating up in the standby
Date: 2010-08-27 15:54:51
Message-ID: AANLkTin4DmZxWh9uQm_J7aT8AHVS19vS0h21Q8g6Kbrw@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
> Hmm, agreed, seems like an oversight in hot standby. Before that, we didn't
> update pg_subtrans during recovery, so there was no point truncating it. But
> in hot standby, we do update it, so we need to truncate it too.

Yes. The attached patch changes a restartpoint so that it truncates pg_subtrans
when hot standby is enabled. When it's disabled, we need to do nothing because,
in that case, pg_subtrans is not updated during recovery and StartupSUBTRANS()
is not called before a restartpoint.

Regards,

--
Fujii Masao
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
NTT Open Source Software Center

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