On 2022-Mar-29, Kyotaro Horiguchi wrote: > > That's going to result in a call to > > XLogReadBufferForRedoExtended() which will call > > XLogReadBufferExtended() which will do smgrcreate(smgr, forknum, true) > > which will in turn call TablespaceCreateDbspace() to fill in all the > > missing directories. > > Right. I thought that recovery avoids that but that's wrong. This > behavior creates a bare (non-linked) directly within pg_tblspc. The > directory would dissapear soon if recovery proceeds to the consistency > point, though.
Hmm, this is not good. > No. I agree that mixing them is not good. On the other hand we > already doing that by heapam. AFAICS sometimes it avoid creating a > new page but sometimes creates it. But I don't mean to use the fact > for justifying this patch to do that, or denying to do that. I think we should revert this patch and do it again using the other approach: create a stub directory during recovery that can be deleted later. -- Álvaro Herrera Breisgau, Deutschland — https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/ "Porque francamente, si para saber manejarse a uno mismo hubiera que rendir examen... ¿Quién es el machito que tendría carnet?" (Mafalda)