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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