Re: Updating FSM on recovery - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Updating FSM on recovery
Date
Msg-id 9672.1225215390@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Updating FSM on recovery  (Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>)
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Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> As far as the ugliness in XLogRecordPageWithFreeSpace goes: couldn't you
>> just call XLogReadBufferWithFork with init = true, and then initialize
>> the page if PageIsNew?

> With init=true, we don't even try to read the page from the disk (since 
> 8.3), so all FSM pages accessed during recovery would be zeroed out. I 
> don't think that's what you intended.

Ah, right.  Maybe the API change you suggested in the comment is the
way to go.
        regards, tom lane


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