From: | Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
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To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
Cc: | PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Hot standby and GiST page splits (was Re: WIP: Fast GiST index build) |
Date: | 2011-08-02 17:13:53 |
Message-ID: | 4E383051.4040804@enterprisedb.com |
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On 02.08.2011 20:06, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Excerpts from Heikki Linnakangas's message of mar ago 02 11:59:24 -0400 2011:
>> On 02.08.2011 15:18, Simon Riggs wrote:
>>> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
>>> <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>>>> On 02.08.2011 14:36, Simon Riggs wrote:
>>>> Actually I think we can append the new information to the end of the page
>>>> split record, so that an old version server can read WAL generated by new
>>>> version, too.
>>>
>>> Not sure how that would work. Lengths, CRCs?
>>>
>>> Or do you mean we will support 2 versions, have them both called the
>>> same thing, just resolve which is which by the record length. Don't
>>> like that.
>>
>> Here's a patch to do what I meant. The new fields are stored at the very
>> end of the WAL record, and you check the length to see if they're there
>> or not. The nice thing about this is that it's compatible in both
>> directions.
>
> Err, did you attach the wrong patch?
Yes, sorry about that. Here's the right patch.
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Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
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