Re: Relation cache invalidation on replica

On 2016-02-26 18:05:55 +0300, Konstantin Knizhnik wrote:
> The reason of the problem is that invalidation messages are not delivered to
> replica after the end of concurrent create index.
> Invalidation messages are included in xlog as part of transaction commit
> record.
> Concurrent index create is split into three transaction, last of which is
> just performing inplace update of index tuple, marking it as valid and
> invalidating cache. But as far as this transaction is not assigned XID, no
> transaction record is created in WAL and send to replicas. As a result,
> replica doesn't receive this invalidation messages.

Ugh, that's a fairly ugly bug.