Re: 回复： Why is XLOG_FPI_FOR_HINT always need backups?

On 2021/07/16 16:31, Kyotaro Horiguchi wrote:
> Sorry, I missed that the XLogReadBufferForRedo is expected to return
> BLK_RESTORED. And XLogReadBufferForRedo errors out when it tries to
> read nonexistent page without having an FPI (this happens for FSM
> pages). Rather than teaching XLogReadBufferExtended to behave
> differrently for the case, I choosed to avoid trying to load the page
> when the corresponding FPI block is missing in XLOG_FPI_FOR_HINT, as
> if the record itself did not exist at all.
>
> Since differently from XLOG_FPI, XLOG_FPI_FOR_HINT has only one page
> reference at most, but in the attached the decision whether to read
> the page or not is made for each block.

Thanks for updating the patch! It basically looks good to me.

* Full-page image (FPI) records contain nothing else but a backup
* block (or multiple backup blocks). Every block reference must
* include a full-page image - otherwise there would be no point in
* this record.

The above comment also needs to be updated?

Regards,

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