Re: HOT patch - version 15 - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: HOT patch - version 15
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Msg-id 1057.1189107127@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: HOT patch - version 15  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Heikki Linnakangas escribi�:
>> and the removed tuples need to be WAL-logged.

> Is this a problem for bgwriter?

bgwriter does checkpoints, which emit WAL records; and they also call
GetOldestXmin.  So we know a-priori that those two things work.  There
may be some other showstopper but I'm not sure what it would be.

            regards, tom lane

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