On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 7:38 PM, Michael Paquier <michael.paqu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I committed and back-patched this with some additional work on the >> comments, but I don't understand this remark. That comment seems like >> it should refer to the checkpointer in modern branches, but isn't that >> point independent of this patch? > > * During recovery, we keep a copy of the latest checkpoint record here. > - * Used by the background writer when it wants to create a restartpoint. > + * lastCheckPointRecPtr points to start of checkpoint record and > + * lastCheckPointEndPtr points to end+1 of checkpoint record. Used by the > + * background writer when it wants to create a restartpoint. > > The patch committed introduces lastCheckPointEndPtr, which is not used > to decide if a restart point should be created or not.
The comment doesn't say anything about those structure members being used to decide "if a restart point should be created or not". It just says that they are used; it says nothing about the purpose for which they are used. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
