Re: Small TRUNCATE glitch - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alex Shulgin
Subject Re: Small TRUNCATE glitch
Date
Msg-id 877fxz1tup.fsf@commandprompt.com
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: Small TRUNCATE glitch  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
List pgsql-hackers
Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:

> On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 10:32:42AM +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>> >I don't think we need to have 2PC files survive a pg_upgrade.  It seems
>> >perfectly okay to remove them from the new cluster at some appropriate
>> >time, *if* they are copied from the old cluster at all (I don't think
>> >they should be.)
>>
>> I think pg_upgrade should check if there are any prepared
>> transactions pending, and refuse to upgrade if there are. It could
>> be made to work, but it's really not worth the trouble. If there are
>> any pending prepared transactions in the system when you run
>> pg_upgrade, it's more likely to be a mistake or oversight in the
>> first place, than on purpose.
>
> pg_upgrade already checks for prepared transactions and errors out if
> they exist;  see check_for_prepared_transactions().

Alright, that's good to know.  So I'm just adding a new bool field to
the 2PC pgstat record instead of the bit magic.

Attached is v0.2, now with a regression test included.

--
Alex


Attachment

pgsql-hackers by date:

Previous
From: Kevin Grittner
Date:
Subject: Re: PATCH: hashjoin - gracefully increasing NTUP_PER_BUCKET instead of batching
Next
From: Rahila Syed
Date:
Subject: Re: [REVIEW] Re: Compression of full-page-writes