Re: COPY FREEZE and setting PD_ALL_VISIBLE/visibility map bits

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Pavan Deolasee <pavan(dot)deolasee(at)gmail(dot)com>, Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Subject: Re: COPY FREEZE and setting PD_ALL_VISIBLE/visibility map bits
Date: 2019-04-05 03:06:04
Message-ID: 20190405030604.GA3360@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2019-Apr-04, Andres Freund wrote:

> On 2019-04-04 12:23:08 -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> > Also, how is this code even close to correct?
> > CheckAndSetPageAllVisible() modifies the buffer in a crucial way, and
> > there's no WAL logging? Without even a comment arguing why that's OK (I
> > don't think it is)?
>
> Peter Geoghegan just reminded me over IM that there's actually logging
> inside log_heap_visible(), called from visibilitymap_set(). Still lacks
> a critical section though.

Hmm, isn't there already a critical section in visibilitymap_set itself?

> I still think this is the wrong architecture.

Hmm.

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Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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