Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> Log Message:
>> -----------
>> Reduce WAL activity for page splits:
>>
>>> Currently, an index split writes all the data on the split page to
>>> WAL. That's a lot of WAL traffic. The tuples that are copied to the
>>> right page need to be WAL logged, but the tuples that stay on the
>>> original page don't.
>
>
> this patch killed both of my OpenBSD buildfarm members
lopaque was referenced after pfreeing the temp page it pointed to. Also
later in the function the LSN of the left page was set, but again using
a pointer to the pfreed temp copy instead of the real shared memory buffer.
Here's a fix.
--
Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
Index: src/backend/access/nbtree/nbtinsert.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/hlinnaka/pgcvsrepository/pgsql/src/backend/access/nbtree/nbtinsert.c,v
retrieving revision 1.150
diff -c -r1.150 nbtinsert.c
*** src/backend/access/nbtree/nbtinsert.c 8 Feb 2007 05:05:53 -0000 1.150
--- src/backend/access/nbtree/nbtinsert.c 8 Feb 2007 09:36:05 -0000
***************
*** 953,959 ****
xlrec.rightsib = BufferGetBlockNumber(rbuf);
xlrec.firstright = firstright;
xlrec.rnext = ropaque->btpo_next;
! xlrec.level = lopaque->btpo.level;
rdata[0].data = (char *) &xlrec;
rdata[0].len = SizeOfBtreeSplit;
--- 953,959 ----
xlrec.rightsib = BufferGetBlockNumber(rbuf);
xlrec.firstright = firstright;
xlrec.rnext = ropaque->btpo_next;
! xlrec.level = ropaque->btpo.level;
rdata[0].data = (char *) &xlrec;
rdata[0].len = SizeOfBtreeSplit;
***************
*** 962,968 ****
lastrdata = &rdata[0];
/* Log downlink on non-leaf pages. */
! if (lopaque->btpo.level > 0)
{
lastrdata->next = lastrdata + 1;
lastrdata++;
--- 962,968 ----
lastrdata = &rdata[0];
/* Log downlink on non-leaf pages. */
! if (ropaque->btpo.level > 0)
{
lastrdata->next = lastrdata + 1;
lastrdata++;
***************
*** 1040,1047 ****
recptr = XLogInsert(RM_BTREE_ID, xlinfo, rdata);
! PageSetLSN(leftpage, recptr);
! PageSetTLI(leftpage, ThisTimeLineID);
PageSetLSN(rightpage, recptr);
PageSetTLI(rightpage, ThisTimeLineID);
if (!P_RIGHTMOST(ropaque))
--- 1040,1047 ----
recptr = XLogInsert(RM_BTREE_ID, xlinfo, rdata);
! PageSetLSN(origpage, recptr);
! PageSetTLI(origpage, ThisTimeLineID);
PageSetLSN(rightpage, recptr);
PageSetTLI(rightpage, ThisTimeLineID);
if (!P_RIGHTMOST(ropaque))
