WAL-log the creation of the init fork of unlogged indexes.
We create a file, so we better WAL-log it. In practice, all the
built-in index AMs and all extensions that I'm aware of write a
metapage to the init fork, which is WAL-logged, and replay of the
metapage implicitly creates the fork too. But if ambuildempty() didn't
write any page, we would miss it.
This can be seen with dummy_index_am. Set up replication, create a
'dummy_index_am' index on an unlogged table, and look at the files
created in the replica: the init fork is not created on the
replica. Dummy_index_am doesn't do anything with the relation files,
however, so it doesn't lead to any user-visible errors.
Backpatch to all supported versions.
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/6e5bbc08-cdfc-b2b3-9e23-1a914b9850a9%40iki.fi
Branch
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REL_16_STABLE
Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/bf7b70e6bf4ad07f4a46c51a7f866ef89f82404c
Modified Files
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src/backend/catalog/index.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)