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Re: WAL logging of SELECT ... INTO command


  • From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
  • To: "Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>
  • Cc: Qingqing Zhou <zhouqq(at)cs(dot)toronto(dot)edu>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
  • Subject: Re: WAL logging of SELECT ... INTO command
  • Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 08:39:02 -0400
  • Message-id: <20060324123902(dot)GA14217(at)surnet(dot)cl>

Jim C. Nasby wrote:

> Why would the content of the old_table be unreliable? If we've replayed
> logs up to the point of the CTAS then any data that would be visible to
> the CTAS should be fine, no?
> 
> Though, the way Tom put it in one of his replies it sounds like WAL
> doesn't do any kind of statement logging, only data logging. If that's
> the case I'm not sure that the CTAS would actually get replayed. But I
> suspect I'm just misunderstanding...

The CTAS doesn't get logged (nor replayed obviously).  What happens is
that the involved files are fsync'ed before transaction commit, AFAIR.

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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