Re: Gist Recovery testing

On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:

> Teodor Sigaev wrote:
>>> btree manages to avoid calling the index support functions during WAL
>>> restore --- can't you do the same? Perhaps you need to be including
>>> more information in the initial xlog records, so that the cleanup step
>>> has everything it needs. Or resort to brute-force search (which is more
>>> or less what btree does). I don't think this operation needs to be very
>>> efficient, since it's a corner case that should only seldom be invoked.
>>
>>
>> I've just commited WALogging for GiST. It works for online backup
>> (normal recovery) and mostly after crash, but in this case it can't
>> restore inclompleted inserts although it can detected and say to log
>> thet it's needed to reindex GiST index.
>
>
> FYI: we now have at least 4 machines(otter,kingfisher,lionfish,corgi) on
> the buildfarm crashing during testing of GIST-related things in contrib.
>
> Any chance this could be related to this change ?

Most probably :) But, wait a little bit.
We have a patch currently tested and I see no problem with all GiST-based
contribs on my Slackware Linux 10.1 using it.

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>
> Stefan
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Oleg
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