Re: PATCH: Exclude temp relations from base backup

From: David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Teodor Sigaev <teodor(at)sigaev(dot)ru>
Cc: Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Adam Brightwell <adam(dot)brightwell(at)crunchydata(dot)com>, Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: PATCH: Exclude temp relations from base backup
Date: 2018-03-26 17:08:50
Message-ID: 0c578293-6757-0204-b897-528492efd836@pgmasters.net
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On 3/26/18 1:06 PM, Stephen Frost wrote:
>
> * Teodor Sigaev (teodor(at)sigaev(dot)ru) wrote:
>> Will autovacuum (or something else) complain about absense of relfile during
>> orphan table deleting? I mean, you get a base backup without temp tables,
>> then you try to run postgres on it and will it complain about existing
>> record in pg_class and absence of corresponding relfile?
>
> I would certainly hope not considering that's what happens during
> regular crash recovery also, so if there's an issue with that, we'd have
> a problem in released versions.

Agreed. The logic for pg_basebackup was modeled off RemovePgTempFiles()
which is called at postmaster start. We are just doing the cleanup in
advance (in the backup only, of course).

Thanks,
--
-David
david(at)pgmasters(dot)net

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