On 15.01.2013 08:54, Jeevan Chalke wrote:
For (2), I have added a new function called, GetXLogRecPtrForUnloogedRel()
which returns a fake LSN for GiST indexes. However, I have removed
GetXLogRecPtrForTemp() function and added its functionality inside this new
function itself to avoid complexity.

I don't much care for using a new field in the control file for this. First, it seems like a big modularity violation to store a gist-specific counter in the control file. Second, you'd be generating a lot of traffic on the ControlFileLock. It's not heavily contended at the moment, but when the control file is updated, it's held over an fsync, which could cause unnecessary stalls to insertions to unlogged gist tables. And it's just a bad idea to share a lock for two things with completely different characteristics in general.

Could we stash the counter e.g. in the root page of the index?

- Heikki


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