Re: How to generate specific WAL records?

Alvaro-san;

Thank you for a great advice.   I successfully generated all the WAL
records listed below.   By deleteing and VACUUMing a table with
btree_gist based index, I was successful to generate all the GIST WAL
records.

Still have the following WAL record to create:

CLOG_TRUNCATE
XLOG_HEAP_INIT_PAGE
XLOG_BTREE_INSERT_META
XLOG_GIN_CREATE_PTREE
XLOG_GIN_DELETE_PAGE

I have to run good amount of transactions before VACUUM FREEZE to
create CLOG_TRUNCATE.  I'll try.

It's very helpful if anybody knows how to generate XLOG_HEAP_INIT_PAGE
and XLOG_BTREE_INSERT_META.

I'll ask Oleg-san how to generate GIN-related WALs.

Thank you very much;
----------
Koichi Suzuki



2010/4/14 Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>:
> Koichi Suzuki escribió:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Does anyone know how to generate the following WAL records from psql?
>>
>> I'm now fixing pg_lesslog, which I reported a bug.   Now code is
>> almost okay and I'd like to add test tools to show pg_lesslog can
>> handle all the WAL record correctly.
>>
>> XLOG_MULTIXACT_ZERO_OFF_PAGE
>> XLOG_MULTIXACT_ZERO_MEM_PAGE
>> XLOG_MULTIXACT_CREATE_ID
>
> For these, you need to do SELECT FOR SHARE of a tuple in more than one
> concurrent session.
>
> I think HEAP_LOCK is SELECT FOR UPDATE.
>
>
>> XLOG_BTREE_DELETE_PAGE
>> XLOG_BTREE_DELETE_PAGE_META
>> XLOG_BTREE_DELETE_PAGE_HALF
>
> These are caused during vacuum of a btree.  Create an index, populate
> it, then remove all items.  Then vacuum twice.
>
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