Ensure that before truncating CLOG, we force a checkpoint even if no

recent WAL activity has occurred.  Without this, it's possible that a
later crash might leave tuples on disk with un-updated commit status
bits.
This commit is contained in:
Tom Lane 2002-09-26 22:58:34 +00:00
parent c87469e64a
commit b2ab1e6bc9
5 changed files with 26 additions and 25 deletions

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@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
* Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2002, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
* Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
*
* $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/access/transam/clog.c,v 1.10 2002/09/02 02:47:01 momjian Exp $
* $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/access/transam/clog.c,v 1.11 2002/09/26 22:58:33 tgl Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@ -809,8 +809,8 @@ TruncateCLOG(TransactionId oldestXact)
if (!ScanCLOGDirectory(cutoffPage, false))
return; /* nothing to remove */
/* Perform a CHECKPOINT */
CreateCheckPoint(false);
/* Perform a forced CHECKPOINT */
CreateCheckPoint(false, true);
/*
* Scan CLOG shared memory and remove any pages preceding the cutoff

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@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
* Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2002, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
* Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
*
* $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c,v 1.106 2002/09/04 20:31:13 momjian Exp $
* $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c,v 1.107 2002/09/26 22:58:33 tgl Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@ -2743,7 +2743,7 @@ StartupXLOG(void)
* checkpoint to become prevCheckPoint...
*/
ControlFile->checkPoint = checkPointLoc;
CreateCheckPoint(true);
CreateCheckPoint(true, true);
XLogCloseRelationCache();
}
@ -2901,7 +2901,7 @@ ShutdownXLOG(void)
CritSectionCount++;
CreateDummyCaches();
CreateCheckPoint(true);
CreateCheckPoint(true, true);
ShutdownCLOG();
CritSectionCount--;
@ -2910,9 +2910,12 @@ ShutdownXLOG(void)
/*
* Perform a checkpoint --- either during shutdown, or on-the-fly
*
* If force is true, we force a checkpoint regardless of whether any XLOG
* activity has occurred since the last one.
*/
void
CreateCheckPoint(bool shutdown)
CreateCheckPoint(bool shutdown, bool force)
{
CheckPoint checkPoint;
XLogRecPtr recptr;
@ -2955,21 +2958,21 @@ CreateCheckPoint(bool shutdown)
LWLockAcquire(WALInsertLock, LW_EXCLUSIVE);
/*
* If this isn't a shutdown, and we have not inserted any XLOG records
* since the start of the last checkpoint, skip the checkpoint. The
* idea here is to avoid inserting duplicate checkpoints when the
* system is idle. That wastes log space, and more importantly it
* If this isn't a shutdown or forced checkpoint, and we have not inserted
* any XLOG records since the start of the last checkpoint, skip the
* checkpoint. The idea here is to avoid inserting duplicate checkpoints
* when the system is idle. That wastes log space, and more importantly it
* exposes us to possible loss of both current and previous checkpoint
* records if the machine crashes just as we're writing the update.
* (Perhaps it'd make even more sense to checkpoint only when the
* previous checkpoint record is in a different xlog page?)
* (Perhaps it'd make even more sense to checkpoint only when the previous
* checkpoint record is in a different xlog page?)
*
* We have to make two tests to determine that nothing has happened since
* the start of the last checkpoint: current insertion point must
* match the end of the last checkpoint record, and its redo pointer
* must point to itself.
*/
if (!shutdown)
if (!shutdown && !force)
{
XLogRecPtr curInsert;

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@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
* Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
*
* IDENTIFICATION
* $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/bootstrap/bootstrap.c,v 1.143 2002/09/25 20:31:40 tgl Exp $
* $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/bootstrap/bootstrap.c,v 1.144 2002/09/26 22:58:33 tgl Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@ -390,7 +390,7 @@ BootstrapMain(int argc, char *argv[])
case BS_XLOG_CHECKPOINT:
CreateDummyCaches();
CreateCheckPoint(false);
CreateCheckPoint(false, false);
SetSavedRedoRecPtr(); /* pass redo ptr back to
* postmaster */
proc_exit(0); /* done */
@ -445,7 +445,7 @@ BootstrapMain(int argc, char *argv[])
Int_yyparse();
SetProcessingMode(NormalProcessing);
CreateCheckPoint(true);
CreateCheckPoint(true, true);
SetProcessingMode(BootstrapProcessing);
/* clean up processing */

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@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
*
*
* IDENTIFICATION
* $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/tcop/utility.c,v 1.177 2002/09/04 20:31:26 momjian Exp $
* $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/tcop/utility.c,v 1.178 2002/09/26 22:58:33 tgl Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@ -831,11 +831,9 @@ ProcessUtility(Node *parsetree,
break;
case T_CheckPointStmt:
{
if (!superuser())
elog(ERROR, "permission denied");
CreateCheckPoint(false);
}
if (!superuser())
elog(ERROR, "permission denied");
CreateCheckPoint(false, false);
break;
case T_ReindexStmt:

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@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
* Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2002, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
* Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
*
* $Id: xlog.h,v 1.38 2002/09/26 22:46:29 tgl Exp $
* $Id: xlog.h,v 1.39 2002/09/26 22:58:34 tgl Exp $
*/
#ifndef XLOG_H
#define XLOG_H
@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ extern void XLOGPathInit(void);
extern void BootStrapXLOG(void);
extern void StartupXLOG(void);
extern void ShutdownXLOG(void);
extern void CreateCheckPoint(bool shutdown);
extern void CreateCheckPoint(bool shutdown, bool force);
extern void SetThisStartUpID(void);
extern void XLogPutNextOid(Oid nextOid);
extern void SetSavedRedoRecPtr(void);