On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 11:14:53AM +0530, Looserof7 wrote:
>I have started to learn postgresql. While going through the WAL dump saw
>the below records,
>
>rmgr: Heap2 len (rec/tot): 60/ 60, tx: 0, lsn:
>4F/CFF1F0F8, prev 4F/CFF1EB70, desc: CLEAN remxid 0, blkref #0: rel
>1663/16385/1259 blk 1301
>
>rmgr: Heap2 len (rec/tot): 60/ 60, tx: 0, lsn:
>4F/CF26F808, prev 4F/CF26F7C0, desc: CLEAN remxid 0, blkref #0: rel
>1663/16385/3312732 blk 2634
>
>rmgr: Heap2 len (rec/tot): 56/ 56, tx: 79718109, lsn:
>4F/CF96D970, prev 4F/CF96D930, desc: CLEAN remxid 0, blkref #0: rel
>1663/16385/209012 blk 6621
>
>
>Wanted to know more about these,
>
> 1. Are "CLEAN" vacuum records ? If not, what are those ?
> 2. Why is the transaction id "0" ?
> 3. What does these records do ?
>
>Postgresql version : 10.6
It's an information for the replica (hot-standby) with information about
recent data removed from the table by vacuum, so that the standby may
abort user queries that'd need the data etc. See heap_xlog_clean()
function in heapam.c.
regards
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