Re: Error with index on unlogged table

On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 4:11 PM, Michael Paquier
<michael.paquier@gmail.com> wrote:
> For master and perhaps 9.5, I would think that a dedicated WAL record
> type enforcing the fsync is the way to go. This special treatment
> would go only for btree and spgist when they use INIT_FORKNUM and we
> would not impact other relation types and code paths with this
> behavior.

So, I have been looking at that, and finished with the attached to
implement this idea. This way, it is possible to control at replay if
a relation should be synced to disk just after replaying a FPI or a
set of FPIs. This makes btree and spgist init forks more consistent at
replay with what is done on master by syncing them immediately, which
is not a bad thing to me.

Now, and actually my last email has been misleading as well, this
patch as well as the previous patch I sent for ~9.4 do not actually
fix the initialization of indexes for unlogged tables after promoting
a standby. Hence I guess that we are still missing a trick when
reinitializing those relations at the end of recovery. It is a bit
late here so I am attaching a patch reflecting the progress I have
done. Comments are welcome.
--
Michael