On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 5:15 PM, Michael Paquier
<michael.paquier@gmail.com> wrote:
> Okay, so what happens is that the CREATE TABLESPACE record removes the
> tablespace directory and recreates a fresh one, but as no CREATE
> records are created for unlogged tables the init fork is not
> re-created. It seems to me that we should log a record to recreate the
> INIT fork, and that heap_create_with_catalog() is missing something.
> Generating a record in RelationCreateStorage() is the more direct way,
> and that actually fixes the issue. Now the comments at the top of it
> mention that RelationCreateStorage() should only be used to create the
> MAIN forknum. So, wouldn't a correct fix be to log this INIT record at
> the end of heap_create()?
Nah. Looking at the code the fix is quite obvious.
heap_create_init_fork() is checking for XLogIsNeeded() to decide if
the INIT forknum should be logged or not. But this is wrong, it needs
to be done unconditionally to ensure that the relation gets created at
replay.
--
Michael
