Re: [Proposal] Fully WAL logged CREATE DATABASE - No Checkpoints - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Dilip Kumar
Subject Re: [Proposal] Fully WAL logged CREATE DATABASE - No Checkpoints
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Msg-id CAFiTN-tY7LgmX07__TOJdsqJan3wrDW2T-O_x=cf-VDxyncvcQ@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: [Proposal] Fully WAL logged CREATE DATABASE - No Checkpoints  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: [Proposal] Fully WAL logged CREATE DATABASE - No Checkpoints
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On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 10:18 PM Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 6:02 AM Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have completely changed the logic for this refactoring.  Basically,
> > write_relmap_file(), is already having parameters to control whether
> > to write wal, send inval and we are already passing the dbpath.
> > Instead of making a new function I just pass one additional parameter
> > to this function itself about whether we are creating a new map or not
> > and I think with that changes are very less and this looks cleaner to
> > me.  Similarly for load_relmap_file() also I just had to pass the
> > dbpath and memory for destination map.  Please have a look and let me
> > know your thoughts.
>
> It's not terrible, but how about something like the attached instead?
> I think this has the effect of reducing the number of cases that the
> low-level code needs to know about from 2 to 1, instead of making it
> go up from 2 to 3.

Yeah this looks cleaner, I will rebase the remaining patch.

> > I think we should also write the test cases for create database
> > strategy.  But I do not see any test case for create database for
> > testing the existing options.  So I am wondering whether we should add
> > the test case only for the new option we are providing or we should
> > create a  separate path which tests the new option as well as the
> > existing options.
>
> FWIW, src/bin/scripts/t/020_createdb.pl does a little bit of testing
> of this kind.

Okay, I think we need to support the strategy in createdb bin as well.
I will do that.

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Regards,
Dilip Kumar
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com



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