Re: [Proposal] Fully WAL logged CREATE DATABASE - No Checkpoints

From: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net, hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi, dilipbalaut(at)gmail(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [Proposal] Fully WAL logged CREATE DATABASE - No Checkpoints
Date: 2021-06-16 06:48:18
Message-ID: 20210616064818.l5jhhwoigotof4uq@nol
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On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 03:27:21PM +0900, Kyotaro Horiguchi wrote:
>
> If we are willing to maintain the two methods.
> Couldn't we just skip the checkpoints if the database is known to
> "clean", which means no page has been loaded for the database since
> startup? We can use the "template" mark to reject connections to the
> database. (I'm afraid that we also should prevent vacuum to visit the
> template databases, but...)

There's already a datallowconn for that purpose. Modifying template databases
is a common practice and we shouldn't prevent that.

But having the database currently doesn't accepting connection doesn't mean that
there is no dirty buffer and/or pending unlink, so it doesn't look like
something that could be optimized, at least for the majority of use cases.

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