On 2019-Feb-28, Tom Lane wrote: > Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > > Hopefully we'll get Tom's patch that addresses the failure-to-truncate > > issues in pg12. > > Hm, are you speaking of the handwaving I did in > https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/2348.1544474...@sss.pgh.pa.us > ? > > I wasn't really working on that for v12 --- I figured it was way > too late in the cycle to be starting on such a significant change.
Oh, well, it certainly seems far too late *now*. However, what about the idea in https://postgr.es/m/1255.1544562...@sss.pgh.pa.us namely that we write out the buffers involved? That sounds like it might be backpatchable, and thus it's not too late for it. -- Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
