Re: Proposal for CSN based snapshots

From: Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Rajeev rastogi <rajeev(dot)rastogi(at)huawei(dot)com>, Ants Aasma <ants(at)cybertec(dot)at>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Markus Wanner <markus(at)bluegap(dot)ch>
Subject: Re: Proposal for CSN based snapshots
Date: 2014-06-18 01:00:37
Message-ID: 53A0E4B5.3090207@2ndquadrant.com
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On 06/18/2014 12:41 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 12:58 AM, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>> > On 05/30/2014 11:14 PM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>>> >> Yeah. To recap, the failure mode is that if the master crashes and
>>> >> restarts, the transaction becomes visible in the master even though it
>>> >> was never replicated.
>> >
>> > Wouldn't another pg_clog bit for the transaction be able to sort that out?
> How?

A flag to indicate that the tx is locally committed but hasn't been
confirmed by a streaming synchronous replica, so it must not become
visible until the replica confirms it or SR is disabled.

Then scan pg_clog on start / replica connect and ask the replica to
confirm local commit for those tx's.

No?

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Craig Ringer http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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