Writing Commit Status hint bits (was Re: [HACKERS] Constant WAL replay)

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Subject: Writing Commit Status hint bits (was Re: [HACKERS] Constant WAL replay)
Date: 2005-07-19 22:57:41
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On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 02:28 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> In the current code there is no such thing as a hard read-only behavior
> --- for example we will try to update commit-status hint bits no matter
> what. Allowing that to be turned off would be interesting for a number
> of purposes, such as burning a database onto CD.

Short patch enclosed to turn off writing of commit-status hint bits.

I've called this "cache_txn_status_with_data" but I'm open to other
suggestions...

This should allow migration of older child tables to hierarchical
storage when using a large historical table design.

Best Regards, Simon Riggs

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hintbits.patch text/x-patch 2.5 KB

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