At Mon, 12 Dec 2022 11:57:17 +0900 (JST), Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota....@gmail.com> wrote in > This patch copies the bleeding edge WAL page without recording the > (next) insertion point nor checking whether all in-progress insertion > behind the target LSN have finished. Thus the copied page may have > holes. That being said, the sequential-reading nature and the fact > that WAL buffers are zero-initialized may make it work for recovery, > but I don't think this also works for replication.
Mmm. I'm a bit dim. Recovery doesn't read concurrently-written records. Please forget about recovery. > I remember that the one of the advantage of reading the on-memory WAL > records is that that allows walsender to presend the unwritten > records. So perhaps we should manage how far the buffer is filled with > valid content (or how far we can presend) in this feature. -- Kyotaro Horiguchi NTT Open Source Software Center