Re: pg_subtrans keeps bloating up in the standby

On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 2:08 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
>> <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>>> Hmm, agreed, seems like an oversight in hot standby. Before that, we didn't
>>> update pg_subtrans during recovery, so there was no point truncating it. But
>>> in hot standby, we do update it, so we need to truncate it too.
>
>> Yes. The attached patch changes a restartpoint so that it truncates pg_subtrans
>> when hot standby is enabled.
>
> Has StartupSUBTRANS been done?

Yes. StartupXLOG calls that before bgwriter is invoked. That is, we can
ensure that StartupSUBTRANS has always been done before bgwriter
performs a restartpoint.

Regards,

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Fujii Masao
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