Re: unnecessary creation of FSM files during bootstrap mode

On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 8:01 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> writes:
> > On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 5:00 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> >> It's also possible that you just aren't exercising the cases where
> >> trouble occurs.  In particular, noting this bit in InsertOneValue():
> >> OidOutputFunctionCall(typoutput, values[i]))));
>
> > I have tried initdb with --debug option (If I am not wrong, it runs
> > initdb under DEBUG5 mode) and didn't hit any problem after applying
> > the patch.  Are you expecting that we might try to open pg_proc at
> > that place which can lead to the problem?
>
> Yes, I was concerned about regprocout in particular.  It might be
> okay as long as we don't try to add any regproc columns to the
> BKI_BOOTSTRAP catalogs.
>

Okay,  I think if we get such a requirement in the future, we might
want to restore the current behavior by selectively doing it for
non-FSM and or non-VM forks.  I will commit the patch removing these
changes before committing the avoid fsm creation stuff [1] by John
which is still under review.

[1] - https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CACPNZCuEijBJ9gq9jqjwvQeDB6%3Dig2egRzHhZDfTtRwhmPLVtw%40mail.gmail.com

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With Regards,
Amit Kapila.
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