Re: Old small commitfest items

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Old small commitfest items
Date: 2018-07-05 01:54:05
Message-ID: CAH2-WzkT+ZJfTDzJ8f2c5Twq4h-JaUMOs3mp1jWOe+GM6UVrUA@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 6:30 PM, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 02, 2018 at 10:30:11AM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> 528 1146 Fix the optimization to skip WAL-logging on table created in
>> same transaction
>
> This has been around for an astonishing amount of time... I don't
> recall all the details but rewriting most of the relation sync handling
> around heapam for a corner optimization is no fun. There is no way that
> we could go down to elimitate wal_level = minimal, so I am wondering if
> we should not silently ignore the optimization if possible instead of
> throwing an error. Perhaps logging a WARNING could make sense.

I don't know about any of that, but something has to give. How much
more time has to pass before we admit defeat? At a certain point, that
is the responsible thing to do.

--
Peter Geoghegan

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