From: | "Florian G(dot) Pflug" <fgp(at)phlo(dot)org> |
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To: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | RFC: A dead simple implementation of pg_rotate_wal |
Date: | 2006-07-15 16:22:12 |
Message-ID: | 44B91634.9050607@phlo.org |
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Hi
I had a urge to do a bit of hacking today, and so I tried to implement
my idea about an pg_rotate_wal for postgres 8.1. It's basically a huge
hack, and wastes io bandwith - but it doesn't need any patches to 8.1,
and can be compiled as an extension.
Here is the code (Included, because it's so short ;-) ).
#define XLOG_NOP 0x40
Datum pg_rotate_wal(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS) {
void *padding = palloc0(XLOG_SEG_SIZE);
XLogRecData rdata;
rdata.data = (char*) padding;
rdata.len = XLOG_SEG_SIZE;
rdata.buffer = InvalidBuffer;
rdata.next = NULL;
XLogInsert(RM_XLOG_ID, XLOG_NOP, &rdata) ;
pfree(padding);
PG_RETURN_NULL() ;
}
Apart from performance (and crazy missuse of the fact that xlog_redo
just does nothing if it doesn't know the info-flag of the wal record) -
do you think that this is safe to use?
greetings, Florian Pflug
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