Re: PATCH: Exclude unlogged tables from base backups

On 1/25/18 12:31 AM, Masahiko Sawada wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 3:25 AM, David Steele <david@pgmasters.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> Here is the first review comments.
>>>
>>> +       unloggedDelim = strrchr(path, '/');
>>>
>>> I think it doesn't work fine on windows. How about using
>>> last_dir_separator() instead?
>>
>> I think this function is OK on Windows -- we use it quite a bit.
>> However, last_dir_separator() is clearer so I have changed it.
> 
> Thank you for updating this. I was concerned about a separator
> character '/' might not work fine on windows.

Ah yes, I see what you mean now.

> On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 6:23 AM, David Steele <david@pgmasters.net> wrote:
>> On 1/24/18 4:02 PM, Adam Brightwell wrote:
>> Actually, I was talking to Stephen about this it seems like #3 would be
>> more practical if we just stat'd the init fork for each relation file
>> found.  I doubt the stat would add a lot of overhead and we can track
>> each unlogged relation in a hash table to reduce overhead even more.
>>
> 
> Can the readdir handle files that are added during the loop? I think
> that we still cannot exclude a new unlogged relation if the relation
> is added after we execute readdir first time. To completely eliminate
> it we need a sort of lock that prevents to create new unlogged
> relation from current backends. Or we need to do readdir loop multiple
> times to see if no new relations were added during sending files.

As far as I know readdir() is platform-dependent in terms of how it
scans the dir and if files created after the opendir() will appear.

It shouldn't matter, though, since WAL replay will recreate those files.

> If you're updating the patch to implement #3, this patch should be
> marked as "Waiting on Author". After updated I'll review it again.
Attached is a new patch that uses stat() to determine if the init fork
for a relation file exists.  I decided not to build a hash table as it
could use considerable memory and I didn't think it would be much faster
than a simple stat() call.

The reinit.c refactor has been removed since it was no longer needed.
I'll submit the tests I wrote for reinit.c as a separate patch for the
next CF.

Thanks,
-- 
-David
david@pgmasters.net