Hiroshi Inoue [mailto:Inoue@seiren.co.jp] wrote:
> > > Besides which, OID alone doesn't give us a possibility of file
> > > versioning, and as I commented to Vadim I think we will want that,
> > > WAL or no WAL. So it seems to me the two viable choices are
> > > unique-id or OID+version-number. Either way, the
> file-naming behavior
> > > should be the same across all platforms.
> >
> > I do not think the only problem of a failing rename of
> "temp" to "new"
> > on startup rollforward is issue enough to justify the additional
> > complexity
> > a version implys.
>
> Hmm,I've always mentioned about usual rollback and never mentioned
> about rollforward on this topic AFAIR. Could you tell me what you mean
> by * on startup rollforward* ?
situation:
$ alter table ...
db crash before rename is done but rest was ok.
$ startup
rollforward tx log which has the open entry for the rename table
Andreas