> > Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > >> The complaints about WAL size amount to "we don't have the disk space
> > >> to keep track of this, for long-running transactions". If it doesn't
> > >> fit on disk, how likely is it that it will fit in memory?
> >
> > > Sure, we can put on the disk if that is better.
> >
> > I think you missed my point. Unless something can be done to make the
> > log info a lot smaller than it is now, keeping it all around until
> > transaction end is just not pleasant. Waving your hands and saying
> > that we'll keep it in a different place doesn't affect the fundamental
> > problem: if the transaction runs a long time, the log is too darn big.
>
> When you said long running, I thought you were concerned about long
> running in duration, not large transaction. Long duration in one-WAL
> setup would cause all transaction logs to be kept. Large transactions
> are another issue.
>
> One solution may be to store just the relid if many tuples are modified
> in the same table. If you stored the command counter for start/end of
> the nested transaction, it would be possible to sequential scan the
> table and undo all the affected tuples. Does that help? Again, I am
> just throwing out ideas here, hoping something will catch.
Actually, we need to keep around nested transaction UNDO information
only until the nested transaction exits to the main transaction:
BEGIN WORK; BEGIN WORK; COMMIT; -- we can throw away the UNDO here BEGIN WORK; BEGIN WORK;
... COMMIT COMMIT; -- we can throw away the UNDO hereCOMMIT;
We are using the outside transaction for our ACID capabilities, and just
using UNDO for nested transaction capability.
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