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2015-01-06Update copyright for 2015Bruce Momjian
Backpatch certain files through 9.0
2014-12-03Fix typosAlvaro Herrera
2014-11-28Fix assertion failure at end of PITR.Heikki Linnakangas
InitXLogInsert() cannot be called in a critical section, because it allocates memory. But CreateCheckPoint() did that, when called for the end-of-recovery checkpoint by the startup process. In the passing, fix the scratch space allocation in InitXLogInsert to go to the right memory context. Also update the comment at InitXLOGAccess, which hasn't been totally accurate since hot standby was introduced (in a hot standby backend, InitXLOGAccess isn't called at backend startup). Reported by Michael Paquier
2014-11-24Distinguish XLOG_FPI records generated for hint-bit updates.Heikki Linnakangas
Add a new XLOG_FPI_FOR_HINT record type, and use that for full-page images generated for hint bit updates, when checksums are enabled. The new record type is replayed exactly the same as XLOG_FPI, but allows them to be tallied separately e.g. in pg_xlogdump.
2014-11-21Fix bogus comments in XLogRecordAssembleHeikki Linnakangas
Pointed out by Michael Paquier
2014-11-20Revamp the WAL record format.Heikki Linnakangas
Each WAL record now carries information about the modified relation and block(s) in a standardized format. That makes it easier to write tools that need that information, like pg_rewind, prefetching the blocks to speed up recovery, etc. There's a whole new API for building WAL records, replacing the XLogRecData chains used previously. The new API consists of XLogRegister* functions, which are called for each buffer and chunk of data that is added to the record. The new API also gives more control over when a full-page image is written, by passing flags to the XLogRegisterBuffer function. This also simplifies the XLogReadBufferForRedo() calls. The function can dig the relation and block number from the WAL record, so they no longer need to be passed as arguments. For the convenience of redo routines, XLogReader now disects each WAL record after reading it, copying the main data part and the per-block data into MAXALIGNed buffers. The data chunks are not aligned within the WAL record, but the redo routines can assume that the pointers returned by XLogRecGet* functions are. Redo routines are now passed the XLogReaderState, which contains the record in the already-disected format, instead of the plain XLogRecord. The new record format also makes the fixed size XLogRecord header smaller, by removing the xl_len field. The length of the "main data" portion is now stored at the end of the WAL record, and there's a separate header after XLogRecord for it. The alignment padding at the end of XLogRecord is also removed. This compansates for the fact that the new format would otherwise be more bulky than the old format. Reviewed by Andres Freund, Amit Kapila, Michael Paquier, Alvaro Herrera, Fujii Masao.
2014-11-06Move the backup-block logic from XLogInsert to a new file, xloginsert.c.Heikki Linnakangas
xlog.c is huge, this makes it a little bit smaller, which is nice. Functions related to putting together the WAL record are in xloginsert.c, and the lower level stuff for managing WAL buffers and such are in xlog.c. Also move the definition of XLogRecord to a separate header file. This causes churn in the #includes of all the files that write WAL records, and redo routines, but it avoids pulling in xlog.h into most places. Reviewed by Michael Paquier, Alvaro Herrera, Andres Freund and Amit Kapila.