On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 10:54 AM Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 8:18 PM Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 9:29 PM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> >
> > > > I think we can extend this API but I guess it is better to then do it
> > > > for dsm-based as well so that these get tracked via resowner.
> > >
> > > DSM segments are resowner managed already, so it's not obvious that that'd buy
> > > us much? Although I guess there could be a few edge cases that'd look cleaner,
> > > because we could reliably trigger cleanup in the leader instead of relying on
> > > dsm detach hooks + refcounts to manage when a set is physically deleted?
> > >
> >
> > In an off-list discussion with Thomas and Amit, we tried to discuss
> > how to clean up the shared files set in the current use case. Thomas
> > suggested that instead of using individual shared fileset for storing
> > the data for each XID why don't we just create a single shared fileset
> > for complete worker lifetime and when the worker is exiting we can
> > just remove that shared fileset. And for storing XID data, we can
> > just create the files under the same shared fileset and delete those
> > files when we longer need them. I like this idea and it looks much
> > cleaner, after this, we can get rid of the special cleanup mechanism
> > using 'filesetlist'. I have attached a patch for the same.
> >
>
> It seems to me that this idea would obviate any need for resource
> owners as we will have only one fileset now. I have a few initial
> comments on the patch:
>
One more comment:
@@ -2976,39 +2952,17 @@ subxact_info_write(Oid subid, TransactionId xid)
..
+ /* Try to open the subxact file, if it doesn't exist then create it */
+ fd = BufFileOpenShared(xidfileset, path, O_RDWR, true);
+ if (fd == NULL)
+ fd = BufFileCreateShared(xidfileset, path);
..
Instead of trying to create the file here based on whether it exists
or not, can't we create it in subxact_info_add where we are first time
allocating memory for subxacts? If that works then in the above code,
the file should always exist.
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With Regards,
Amit Kapila.
