Re: Speedup twophase transactions

From: Nikhil Sontakke <nikhils(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>, Stas Kelvich <s(dot)kelvich(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Jesper Pedersen <jesper(dot)pedersen(at)redhat(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Speedup twophase transactions
Date: 2017-03-17 07:42:44
Message-ID: CAMGcDxcoEj0yptYHPpbLd_=nYhx9TgrUMtdYS0sCHgykq3Jsww@mail.gmail.com
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>
> >
> > I don't think this will work. We cannot replace pg_twophase with shmem
> > entries + WAL pointers. This is because we cannot expect to have WAL
> entries
> > around for long running prepared queries which survive across
> checkpoints.
>
> But at the beginning of recovery, we can mark such entries with ondisk
> and inredo, in which case the WAL pointers stored in the shmem entries
> do not matter because the data is already on disk.
>

Ok, we can do that and then yes, RecoverPreparedTransaction() can just have
one loop going through the shmem entries. BUT, we cannot ignore
"inredo"+"ondisk" entries. For such entries, we will have to read and
recover from the corresponding 2PC files.

Regards,
Nikhils
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Nikhil Sontakke http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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