Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2022 17:16:04 -0500
From: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>,
	Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>,
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	Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>,
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	Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Proposal] Fully WAL logged CREATE DATABASE - No Checkpoints
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On Thu, Aug 04, 2022 at 06:02:50PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> The "invalidation" comment bothered me for awhile, but I think it's
> fine: we know that no other backend can connect to the source DB
> because we have it locked,

About that - is it any problem that the currently-connected db can be used as a
template?  It's no issue for 2-phase commit, because "create database" cannot
run in an txn.

-- 
Justin