Re: [Proposal] Fully WAL logged CREATE DATABASE - No Checkpoints

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Ashutosh Sharma <ashu(dot)coek88(at)gmail(dot)com>, Maciek Sakrejda <m(dot)sakrejda(at)gmail(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [Proposal] Fully WAL logged CREATE DATABASE - No Checkpoints
Date: 2022-03-19 18:33:10
Message-ID: CA+TgmobZsJXOcXtnVnYoqOXXOi7oRgRen9bHpnjeiG1Y5mpdzw@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 12:39 AM Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > One question that occurred to me when looking this over is whether, or
> > why, it's safe against concurrent smgr invalidations.
>
> We are only accessing the smgr of the source database and the
> destination database. And there is no one else that can be connected
> to the source db and the destination db is not visible to anyone. So
> do we really need to worry about the concurrent smgr invalidation?
> What am I missing?

A sinval reset can occur at any moment due to an overflow of the
queue. That acts as a universal reset of everything. So you can't
reason on the basis of what somebody might be sending.

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Robert Haas
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com

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