Re: Unhappy about API changes in the no-fsm-for-small-rels patch

From: John Naylor <john(dot)naylor(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Unhappy about API changes in the no-fsm-for-small-rels patch
Date: 2019-05-02 07:09:26
Message-ID: CACPNZCtKRXUs0w4w_E68v=6w5RcfpzT5yB5ERNQfRqbtsxNXMg@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 2:31 PM Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> @@ -776,7 +776,10 @@ fsm_extend(Relation rel, BlockNumber fsm_nblocks)
> if ((rel->rd_smgr->smgr_fsm_nblocks == 0 ||
> rel->rd_smgr->smgr_fsm_nblocks == InvalidBlockNumber) &&
> !smgrexists(rel->rd_smgr, FSM_FORKNUM))
> + {
> smgrcreate(rel->rd_smgr, FSM_FORKNUM, false);
> + fsm_clear_local_map(rel);
> + }
>
> I think this won't be correct because when we call fsm_extend via
> vacuum the local map won't be already existing, so it won't issue an
> invalidation call. Isn't it better to directly call
> CacheInvalidateRelcache here to notify other backends that their local
> maps are invalid now?

Yes, you're quite correct.

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