Re: Unlogged tables cannot be truncated twice

2011/5/31 Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>:
> On Monday, May 30, 2011 11:18:20 PM Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> Excerpts from Greg Sabino Mullane's message of lun may 30 12:00:43 -0400
> 2011:
>> > Wow, this one took a bit to narrow down. Here's the failing case:
>> >
>> > # create unlogged table foo (a text);
>> > CREATE TABLE
>> > # begin;
>> > BEGIN
>> > #* truncate table foo;
>> > TRUNCATE TABLE
>> > #* truncate table foo;
>> > ERROR:  could not create file "base/19131/19183_init": File exists
>> >
>> > Very reproducible. The column types matter: if the only column
>> > is an INT, for example, the problem does not occur.
>>
>> So 19183 is the toast table OID?
> Nope. Its any index.
>
> You can provoke it with:
> begin;create unlogged table foo (a int primary key);truncate foo;rollback;
> or
> begin;create unlogged table foo (a text);truncate foo;rollback;
>
>
> The problem is this tidbit from tablecmds.c's ExecuteTruncate:
>
>                /*
>                 * Normally, we need a transaction-safe truncation here.  However, if
>                 * the table was either created in the current (sub)transaction or has
>                 * a new relfilenode in the current (sub)transaction, then we can just
>                 * truncate it in-place, because a rollback would cause the whole
>                 * table or the current physical file to be thrown away anyway.
>                 */
>                if (rel->rd_createSubid == mySubid ||
>                        rel->rd_newRelfilenodeSubid == mySubid)
>                {
>                        /* Immediate, non-rollbackable truncation is OK */
>                        heap_truncate_one_rel(rel);
>                }
>
> in combination with index.c's index_build:
>
>
>        /*
>         * If this is an unlogged index, we need to write out an init fork for it.
>         */
>        if (heapRelation->rd_rel->relpersistence == RELPERSISTENCE_UNLOGGED)
>        {
>                RegProcedure ambuildempty = indexRelation->rd_am->ambuildempty;
>
>                RelationOpenSmgr(indexRelation);
>                smgrcreate(indexRelation->rd_smgr, INIT_FORKNUM, false);
>                OidFunctionCall1(ambuildempty, PointerGetDatum(indexRelation));
>        }
>

I remove my own explanations as we conclude on the same thing.
Attached is the fix by adding a (!reindex)  in the index.c if().

It looks enough from early testing.

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