Re: CREATE INDEX and HOT - revised design

From: "Simon Riggs" <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: "Pavan Deolasee" <pavan(dot)deolasee(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "Bruce Momjian" <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, "PostgreSQL-development" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Pavan Deolasee" <pavan(dot)deolasee(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Subject: Re: CREATE INDEX and HOT - revised design
Date: 2007-03-28 18:48:58
Message-ID: 1175107739.4386.432.camel@silverbirch.site
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On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 23:42 +0530, Pavan Deolasee wrote:
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> On 3/28/07, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
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> Set it at the end, not the beginning.
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>
> At the end of what ? It does not help to set it at the end of CREATE
> INDEX because the transaction may not commit immediately. In
> the meantime, many new transactions may start with
> transaction id > xcreate. All these transactions can see the old
> tuple (which we did not index) and can also see the index once
> CREATE INDEX commits.

AtEOX_Reincarnate()... :-)

Set xcreate to InvalidTransactionId when we build the index

If we created an index in this transaction, as soon as we commit the top
level transaction, run another top level transaction to set xcreate
using ReadNewTransactionId().

During WAL replay, we remember any index creations and reset xcreate if
we were unlucky enough to crash between the two transactions.

(I'll be offline now for a few hours until the flames subside.)

--
Simon Riggs
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

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