Re: Fix DROP TABLESPACE on Windows with ProcSignalBarrier?

From: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Fix DROP TABLESPACE on Windows with ProcSignalBarrier?
Date: 2021-03-04 22:08:22
Message-ID: CA+hUKGLXWk-Ok0NoemDi8es+aeyMHHk4qw1R-764cEJmHJE61A@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 11:54 AM Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > I've been wondering what obscure hazards these "tombstone" (for want
> > of a better word) files guard against, besides the one described in
> > the comments for mdunlink(). I've been thinking about various
> > schemes that can be summarised as "put the tombstones somewhere else",
> > but first... this is probably a stupid question, but what would break
> > if we just ... turned all this stuff off when wal_level is high enough
> > (as it is by default)?

The "how-to-make-it-so-that-we-don't-need-a-checkpoint" subtopic is
hereby ejected from this thead, and moved over here:
https://commitfest.postgresql.org/33/3030/

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