Re: DDL result is lost by CREATE DATABASE with WAL_LOG strategy

On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 10:24:13AM +0530, Dilip Kumar wrote:
> Yes, there is no reason to pass this as false, seems like this is
> passed false by mistake. And your patch fixes the issue.

So, if I am understanding this stuff right, this issue can create data
corruption once a DDL updates any pages of pg_class stored in a
template database that gets copied by this routine. In this case, the
patch sent makes sure that any page copied will get written once a
checkpoint kicks in. Shouldn't we have at least a regression test for
such a scenario? The issue can happen when updating a template
database after creating a database from it, which is less worrying
than the initial impression I got, still I'd like to think that we
should have some coverage as of the special logic this code path
relies on for pg_class when reading its buffers.

I have not given much attention to this area, but I am a bit
suspicious that enforcing the default as WAL_LOG was a good idea for
15~, TBH. We are usually much more conservative when it comes to
such choices, switching to the new behavior after a few years would
have been wiser..
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Michael