Re: Hot standby and b-tree killed items

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Greg Stark <greg(dot)stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Hot standby and b-tree killed items
Date: 2008-12-31 10:12:40
Message-ID: 1230718360.4032.39.camel@ebony.2ndQuadrant
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On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 18:31 +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Simon Riggs wrote:
> > (a) always ignore LP_DEAD flags we see when reading index during
> > recovery.
>
> This sounds simplest, and it's nice to not clear the flags for the
> benefit of transactions running after the recovery is done.

Agreed.

(Also: Transaction hint bits are always set correctly, because we would
only ever see a full page write with hints set after the commit/abort
record was processed. So I continue to honour transaction hint bit
reading and setting during recovery).

> You have to be careful to ignore the flags in read-only transactions
> that started in hot standby mode, even if recovery has since ended and
> we're in normal operation now.

Got that.

I'm setting ignore_killed_tuples = false at the start of any index scan
during recovery. And kill_prior_tuples is never set true when in
recovery. Both measures are AM-agnostic.

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Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com
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