Hackers,
In access/heap/heapam.c, in heap_mark4update(), there's a comment that
states
/* * XLOG stuff: no logging is required as long as we have no * savepoints. For savepoints private log could be used...
*/
Is this still true in light of 8.0's savepoints? If it isn't, maybe
it's a good idea to update the comment. I don't really understand the
issue: I assume that since the marking changes the page on disk, it
would need to be WAL-logged; however, since the change needs not be
permanent because the lock doesn't need to be preserved across a crash,
we just skip it.
I think the comment was made assuming that savepoints would be
implemented using REDO, and that in our multiple-Xid design does not
hold. So it's inaccurate. Am I right?
In any case I'm contemplating changing exclusive row locks to use
LockAcquire, and supporting shared row locks using the same mechanism.
All this per previous discussion on -hackers. We could get rid of
heap_mark4update if that's done, right?
--
Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[@]dcc.uchile.cl>)
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