On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 03:49:43PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > Greetings, > > * Bruce Momjian (br...@momjian.us) wrote: > > OK, that's what I thought. We already expose the clog and fsm, so > > exposing the hint bits seems acceptable. If everyone agrees, I will > > adjust my patch to not WAL log hint bit changes. > > Robert pointed out that it's not just hint bits where this is happening > though, but it can also happen with btree line pointer arrays. Even if > we were entirely comfortable accepting that the hint bits are leaked > because of this, leaking the btree line pointer array doesn't seem like > it could possibly be acceptable.. > > I've not run down that code myself, but I don't have any reason to doubt > Robert's assessment.
OK, I guess we could split out log_hints to maybe just FPW-log btree changes or something, but my recent email questions why wal_log_hints is an issue anyway. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> https://momjian.us EDB https://enterprisedb.com If only the physical world exists, free will is an illusion.
