From: "Andrey V. Lepikhov" <a.lepikhov@postgrespro.ru>
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2019 08:33:46 +0500
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] Relation-into-WAL-function

---
 src/backend/access/transam/generic_xlog.c | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/include/access/generic_xlog.h         |  3 ++
 2 files changed, 51 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/backend/access/transam/generic_xlog.c b/src/backend/access/transam/generic_xlog.c
index 5b00b7275b..c22e361747 100644
--- a/src/backend/access/transam/generic_xlog.c
+++ b/src/backend/access/transam/generic_xlog.c
@@ -542,3 +542,51 @@ generic_mask(char *page, BlockNumber blkno)
 
 	mask_unused_space(page);
 }
+
+/*
+ * Function to write generic xlog for every existing block of a relation.
+ * Caller is responsible for locking the relation exclusively.
+ */
+void
+generic_log_relation(Relation rel)
+{
+	BlockNumber 		blkno;
+	BlockNumber 		nblocks;
+	int					npbuf = 0;
+	GenericXLogState	*state = NULL;
+	Buffer				bufpack[MAX_GENERIC_XLOG_PAGES];
+
+	CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS();
+	nblocks = RelationGetNumberOfBlocks(rel);
+
+	/*
+	 * Iterate over all index pages and WAL-logging it. Pages are grouping into
+	 * the packages before adding to a WAL-record. Zero-pages are
+	 * not logged.
+	 */
+	for (blkno = 0; blkno < nblocks; blkno++)
+	{
+		Buffer	buf;
+
+		buf = ReadBuffer(rel, blkno);
+		if (!PageIsNew(BufferGetPage(buf)))
+		{
+			if (npbuf == 0)
+				state = GenericXLogStart(rel);
+
+			LockBuffer(buf, BUFFER_LOCK_EXCLUSIVE);
+			GenericXLogRegisterBuffer(state, buf, GENERIC_XLOG_FULL_IMAGE);
+			bufpack[npbuf++] = buf;
+		}
+		else
+			ReleaseBuffer(buf);
+
+		if ((npbuf == MAX_GENERIC_XLOG_PAGES) || (blkno == nblocks-1))
+		{
+			GenericXLogFinish(state);
+
+			for (; npbuf > 0; npbuf--)
+				UnlockReleaseBuffer(bufpack[npbuf-1]);
+		}
+	}
+}
diff --git a/src/include/access/generic_xlog.h b/src/include/access/generic_xlog.h
index cb5b5b713a..e3bbf014cc 100644
--- a/src/include/access/generic_xlog.h
+++ b/src/include/access/generic_xlog.h
@@ -42,4 +42,7 @@ extern const char *generic_identify(uint8 info);
 extern void generic_desc(StringInfo buf, XLogReaderState *record);
 extern void generic_mask(char *pagedata, BlockNumber blkno);
 
+/* other utils */
+extern void generic_log_relation(Relation rel);
+
 #endif							/* GENERIC_XLOG_H */
-- 
2.17.1


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