On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 09:33:52PM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2019-05-14 13:23:28 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
>> What's actually the reason preventing us from delaying the
>> checkpointer like the index AMs for the logging of heap init fork?
>
> I'm not following. What do you mean by "delaying the checkpointer"?
I mean what Robert has mentioned here:
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CA+TgmoZ4TWaPCKhF-szV-nPxDXL40zCwm9pNFJZURvRgm2oJzQ@mail.gmail.com
And my gut tells me that he got that right, because we are discussing
about race conditions with crashes and checkpoints in-between calls to
smgrimmedsync() and log_newpage(). That could be invasive for
back-branches, but for HEAD this would make the whole init fork
handling saner.
--
Michael
