Re: [Proposal] Fully WAL logged CREATE DATABASE - No Checkpoints

From: Ashutosh Sharma <ashu(dot)coek88(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut(at)gmail(dot)com>, Maciek Sakrejda <m(dot)sakrejda(at)gmail(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [Proposal] Fully WAL logged CREATE DATABASE - No Checkpoints
Date: 2022-03-11 05:15:25
Message-ID: CAE9k0Pms34EW7D+bDoOMGGpPsvGkCLpx7M+KYmnH2S=Bh4ECxg@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 10:18 PM Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 6:02 AM Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > I have completely changed the logic for this refactoring. Basically,
> > write_relmap_file(), is already having parameters to control whether
> > to write wal, send inval and we are already passing the dbpath.
> > Instead of making a new function I just pass one additional parameter
> > to this function itself about whether we are creating a new map or not
> > and I think with that changes are very less and this looks cleaner to
> > me. Similarly for load_relmap_file() also I just had to pass the
> > dbpath and memory for destination map. Please have a look and let me
> > know your thoughts.
>
> It's not terrible, but how about something like the attached instead?
> I think this has the effect of reducing the number of cases that the
> low-level code needs to know about from 2 to 1, instead of making it
> go up from 2 to 3.
>

Looks better, but why do you want to pass elevel to the
load_relmap_file()? Are we calling this function from somewhere other
than read_relmap_file()? If not, do we have any plans to call this
function directly bypassing read_relmap_file for any upcoming patch?

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With Regards,
Ashutosh Sharma.

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