Re: equivalent thing of mtr in mysql

> On Jul 18, 2022, at 20:03, merryok <merryok(at)163(dot)com> wrote:
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> I've read the doc, and it doesn't help too much.
> Finally I've found START_CRIT_SECTION and END_CRIT_SECTION. It's like mtr.start(), mtr.commit() in mysql. May I ask why many places are wrapped into START_CRIT_SECTION/END_CRIT_SECTION during a single dml operation ?

A PostgreSQL critical section is not the equivalent of MySQL InnoDB mini-transaction.

A critical section in PostgreSQL is a section of code that needs to run without interruption to avoid corruption of internal in-memory data structures.

PostgreSQL doesn't have a direct equivalent of a MySQL mini-transaction. When WAL information is created by a statement, it's stored in the WAL buffers, and then flushed to disk by the WAL writer (to a first approximation). There's no special operation that groups pages together for atomic writes; that's done by the underlying file system flush operation.

> And if Assert(CritSectionCount > 0) isn't satisfied (CritSectionCount need't be protected ?), PG server will panic and exit ? If so, what's the probability of that ?

If it occurs, it indicates a bug in PostgreSQL. It is *extremely* infrequent (as in, you can go years without seeing one; I can't remember the last time I did).