On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 18:31 +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Simon Riggs wrote:
> > (a) always ignore LP_DEAD flags we see when reading index during
> > recovery.
>
> This sounds simplest, and it's nice to not clear the flags for the
> benefit of transactions running after the recovery is done.
Agreed.
(Also: Transaction hint bits are always set correctly, because we would
only ever see a full page write with hints set after the commit/abort
record was processed. So I continue to honour transaction hint bit
reading and setting during recovery).
> You have to be careful to ignore the flags in read-only transactions
> that started in hot standby mode, even if recovery has since ended and
> we're in normal operation now.
Got that.
I'm setting ignore_killed_tuples = false at the start of any index scan
during recovery. And kill_prior_tuples is never set true when in
recovery. Both measures are AM-agnostic.
-- Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.comPostgreSQL Training, Services and Support