From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Erik Rijkers <er@xs4all.nl>
Cc: Kevin Grittner <kgrittn@mail.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: foreign key locks
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 16:01:18 -0500
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Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On 2013-01-18 15:37:47 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I doubt it ever came up before. What use is logging only the content of
>> a buffer page? Surely you'd need to know, for example, which relation
>> and page number it is from.
> It only got to be a length of 0 because the the data got removed due to
> a logged full page write. And the backup block contains the data about
> which blocks it is logging in itself.
And if the full-page-image case *hadn't* been invoked, what then? I
still don't see a very good argument for xlog records with no fixed
data.
> I wonder if the check shouldn't just check write_len instead, directly
> below the loop that ads backup blocks.
We're not changing this unless you can convince me that the read-side
error check mentioned in the comment is useless.
regards, tom lane
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