Re: pgsql: rm_cleanup functions need to be allowed to write WAL entries.

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pgsql: rm_cleanup functions need to be allowed to write WAL entries.
Date: 2009-08-10 19:09:20
Message-ID: 200908101909.n7AJ9Km26419@momjian.us
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > On Sun, 2009-08-09 at 11:41 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Er, what's the point of that?
>
> > Rebuilding damaged indexes automatically, rather than barfing. I regard
> > that as a long term extension of crash recovery to bring a database back
> > to a usable state.
>
> Having crash recovery auto-rebuild indexes it thinks are damaged seems
> to me to be a pretty horrid idea. Just for starters, it would overwrite
> forensic evidence about the cause of the damage. A DBA might not wish
> the rebuild to happen *right then* in any case.

Are hash indexes going to need auto-rebuild, or can we make them
WAL-safe eventually?

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