Re: How to generate specific WAL records?

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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