Re: Hot standby and b-tree killed items

I'm confused shouldn't read-only transactions on the slave just be  
hacked to not set any hint bits including lp_delete?

-- 
Greg


On 19 Dec 2008, at 03:49, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com > wrote:

> Whenever a B-tree index scan fetches a heap tuple that turns out to  
> be dead, the B-tree item is marked as killed by calling  
> _bt_killitems. When the page gets full, all the killed items are  
> removed by calling _bt_vacuum_one_page.
>
> That's a problem for hot standby. If any of the killed b-tree items  
> point to a tuple that is still visible to a running read-only  
> transaction, we have the same situation as with vacuum, and have to  
> either wait for the read-only transaction to finish before applying  
> the WAL record or kill the transaction.
>
> It looks like there's some cosmetic changes related to that in the  
> patch, the signature of _bt_delitems is modified, but there's no  
> actual changes that would handle that situation. I didn't see it on  
> the TODO on the hot standby wiki either. Am I missing something, or  
> the patch?
>
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