From ade24dab97a20dae74fb57c0106dfe0e0303541b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alvaro Herrera Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2021 19:47:53 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] Document XLOG_INCLUDE_XID a little better MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I noticed that commit 0bead9af484c left this flag undocumented in XLogSetRecordFlags, which led me to discover that the flag doesn't actually do what the one comment on it said it does. Improve the situation by adding some more comments. Backpatch to 14, where the aforementioned commit appears. Author: Álvaro Herrera Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/202109212119.c3nhfp64t2ql@alvherre.pgsql --- src/backend/access/transam/xloginsert.c | 2 ++ src/include/access/xlog.h | 2 +- src/include/access/xlogrecord.h | 5 +++-- 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/backend/access/transam/xloginsert.c b/src/backend/access/transam/xloginsert.c index e596a0470a..b492c656d7 100644 --- a/src/backend/access/transam/xloginsert.c +++ b/src/backend/access/transam/xloginsert.c @@ -409,6 +409,8 @@ XLogRegisterBufData(uint8 block_id, char *data, int len) * - XLOG_MARK_UNIMPORTANT, to signal that the record is not important for * durability, which allows to avoid triggering WAL archiving and other * background activity. + * - XLOG_INCLUDE_XID, a message-passing hack between XLogRecordAssemble + * and XLogResetInsertion. */ void XLogSetRecordFlags(uint8 flags) diff --git a/src/include/access/xlog.h b/src/include/access/xlog.h index 0a8ede700d..5e2c94a05f 100644 --- a/src/include/access/xlog.h +++ b/src/include/access/xlog.h @@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ extern bool XLOG_DEBUG; */ #define XLOG_INCLUDE_ORIGIN 0x01 /* include the replication origin */ #define XLOG_MARK_UNIMPORTANT 0x02 /* record not important for durability */ -#define XLOG_INCLUDE_XID 0x04 /* include XID of top-level xact */ +#define XLOG_INCLUDE_XID 0x04 /* WAL-internal message-passing hack */ /* Checkpoint statistics */ diff --git a/src/include/access/xlogrecord.h b/src/include/access/xlogrecord.h index e06ee92a5e..8d1305eae8 100644 --- a/src/include/access/xlogrecord.h +++ b/src/include/access/xlogrecord.h @@ -215,8 +215,9 @@ typedef struct XLogRecordDataHeaderLong * Block IDs used to distinguish different kinds of record fragments. Block * references are numbered from 0 to XLR_MAX_BLOCK_ID. A rmgr is free to use * any ID number in that range (although you should stick to small numbers, - * because the WAL machinery is optimized for that case). A couple of ID - * numbers are reserved to denote the "main" data portion of the record. + * because the WAL machinery is optimized for that case). A few ID + * numbers are reserved to denote the "main" data portion of the record, + * as well as replication-supporting transaction metadata. * * The maximum is currently set at 32, quite arbitrarily. Most records only * need a handful of block references, but there are a few exceptions that