Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> On 13.12.2010 19:19, Greg Stark wrote:
>> If it's only the backup blocks that matter couldn't you generate noop
>> WAL records with just the full page image in them. Once all those are
>> generated then generate the actual split operation and since all the
>> pages have been written to wal since the last checkpoint they won't
>> need any backup block slots.
>>
>> This would require surpressing any checkpoints between writing the
>> first backup block and the final operation record. That might be
>> pretty hard to do cleanly.
> That would work, but it brings us back to square one
Yeah. Wouldn't the original page-split record have been carrying full
page images already? (And if so, why didn't we have this problem in the
previous implementation?)
regards, tom lane
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