Re: Patch for fail-back without fresh backup

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Pavan Deolasee <pavan(dot)deolasee(at)gmail(dot)com>, Sawada Masahiko <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, Samrat Revagade <revagade(dot)samrat(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Patch for fail-back without fresh backup
Date: 2013-11-22 22:46:15
Message-ID: 20131122224615.GC32176@momjian.us
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On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 11:43:34PM +0100, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2013-11-21 14:40:36 -0800, Jeff Janes wrote:
> > But if the transaction would not have otherwise generated WAL (i.e. a
> > select that did not have to do any HOT pruning, or an update with zero rows
> > matching the where condition), doesn't it now have to flush and wait when
> > it would otherwise not?
>
> We short circuit that if there's no xid assigned. Check
> RecordTransactionCommit().

OK, that was my question, now answered. Thanks.

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