Re: POC: Cleaning up orphaned files using undo logs - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Amit Kapila
Subject Re: POC: Cleaning up orphaned files using undo logs
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Msg-id CAA4eK1+j5ioj-MsRM6Na4F0SQyGEUPPyJ6DOYZh93ThUSv031w@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: POC: Cleaning up orphaned files using undo logs  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 9:52 PM Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 7:13 AM Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >  I also strongly suspect it is altogether wrong to do
> > > this before CommitSubTransaction sets s->state to TRANS_COMMIT; what
> > > if a subxact callback throws an error?
> >
> > Are you worried that it might lead to the execution of actions twice?
>
> No, I'm worried that you are running code that is part of the commit
> path before the transaction has actually committed.
> CommitSubTransaction() is full of stuff which basically propagates
> whatever the subtransaction did out to the parent transaction, and all
> of that code runs after we've ruled out the possibility of an abort,
> but this very-similar-looking code runs while it's still possible for
> an abort to happen. That seems unlikely to be correct, and even if it
> is, it seems needlessly inconsistent.
>

Fair point, will change as per your suggestion.

-- 
With Regards,
Amit Kapila.
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com



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