pgsql: Reduce WAL activity for page splits: > Currently, an index split

From: momjian(at)postgresql(dot)org (Bruce Momjian)
To: pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Reduce WAL activity for page splits: > Currently, an index split
Date: 2007-02-08 05:05:54
Message-ID: 20070208050554.1ED249FB373@postgresql.org
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Log Message:
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Reduce WAL activity for page splits:

> Currently, an index split writes all the data on the split page to
> WAL. That's a lot of WAL traffic. The tuples that are copied to the
> right page need to be WAL logged, but the tuples that stay on the
> original page don't.

Heikki Linnakangas

Modified Files:
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pgsql/src/backend/access/nbtree:
nbtinsert.c (r1.149 -> r1.150)
(http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/access/nbtree/nbtinsert.c.diff?r1=1.149&r2=1.150)
nbtxlog.c (r1.41 -> r1.42)
(http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/access/nbtree/nbtxlog.c.diff?r1=1.41&r2=1.42)
pgsql/src/include/access:
nbtree.h (r1.110 -> r1.111)
(http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/include/access/nbtree.h.diff?r1=1.110&r2=1.111)

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