Re: Suspicious behaviour on applying XLOG_HEAP2_VISIBLE.

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Suspicious behaviour on applying XLOG_HEAP2_VISIBLE.
Date: 2016-04-15 20:19:57
Message-ID: 20160415201957.axg47zfktng53wzx@alap3.anarazel.de
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On 2016-04-15 15:26:17 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> I think the bottom line is that we misdesigned the WAL representation
> by assuming that this sort of info could always be piggybacked on a
> transaction commit record. It's time to fix that.

I think we got to piggyback it onto a commit record, as long as there's
one. Otherwise it's going to be more complex (queuing messages when
reading an inval record) and slower (more wal records). I can easily
develop a patch for that, the question is what we do on the back
branches...

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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