Re: [HACKERS] WAL logging problem in 9.4.3?

From: Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>
To: Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi(dot)kyotaro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, 9erthalion6(at)gmail(dot)com, andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com, hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi, robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com, michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] WAL logging problem in 9.4.3?
Date: 2019-05-25 02:33:32
Message-ID: 20190525023332.GE1624191@rfd.leadboat.com
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On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 03:54:30PM +0900, Kyotaro HORIGUCHI wrote:
> Following this direction, the attached PoC works *at least for*
> the wal_optimization TAP tests, but doing pending flush not in
> smgr but in relcache.

This task, syncing files created in the current transaction, is not the kind
of task normally assigned to a cache. We already have a module, storage.c,
that maintains state about files created in the current transaction. Why did
you use relcache instead of storage.c?

On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 09:29:48PM +0900, Kyotaro HORIGUCHI wrote:
> This is a tidier version of the patch.

> - Move the substantial work to table/index AMs.
>
> Each AM can decide whether to support WAL skip or not.
> Currently heap and nbtree support it.

Why would an AM find it important to disable WAL skip?

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