From: | Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Pavan Deolasee <pavan(dot)deolasee(at)gmail(dot)com>, "maxim(dot)boguk" <maxim(dot)boguk(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pg Bugs <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: BUG #10675: alter database set tablespace and unlogged table |
Date: | 2014-06-18 14:19:49 |
Message-ID: | 20140618141949.GC3968@awork2.anarazel.de |
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On 2014-06-18 09:45:46 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > On 2014-06-18 16:15:47 +0530, Pavan Deolasee wrote:
> >> But I wonder if not flushing dirty buffers
> >> of unlogged tables at a checkpoint is a bad idea anyways. User might expect
> >> that the unlogged tables to sustain server crash or unclean shutdown if
> >> there had been no writes after successful manual checkpoint(s).
>
> > They'll get reset at unlcean startup anyway. Independent of having been
> > touched or not.
>
> I'm with Pavan on this one: it's *not* a good thing that manually issued
> checkpoints skip unlogged tables. That's surprising, possibly dangerous,
> and no case whatsoever has been made that anyone sees it as an important
> performance benefit.
I don't understand what dangers it has? Any unclean shutdown resets all
unlogged tables.
/* REDO */
if (InRecovery)
{
...
/*
* We're in recovery, so unlogged relations may be trashed and must be
* reset. This should be done BEFORE allowing Hot Standby
* connections, so that read-only backends don't try to read whatever
* garbage is left over from before.
*/
ResetUnloggedRelations(UNLOGGED_RELATION_CLEANUP);
...
And I don't really see why it's so surprising given that normal
checkpoints skip those buffers?
> I trust that a shutdown checkpoint, at least, would write such pages?
Yes.
> If so, I'd expect that a manual checkpoint would do it too. Maybe
> I'm checkpointing because I want to be sure that the shutdown will be
> quick so I can do a minor release update with minimal downtime.
That's a fair argument.
Greetings,
Andres Freund
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