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1 files changed, 29 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/access/transam/xlogutils.c b/src/backend/access/transam/xlogutils.c
index 02b281c86ad..458af10ca19 100644
--- a/src/backend/access/transam/xlogutils.c
+++ b/src/backend/access/transam/xlogutils.c
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
* Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2009, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
* Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
*
- * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/access/transam/xlogutils.c,v 1.66 2009/01/01 17:23:36 momjian Exp $
+ * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/access/transam/xlogutils.c,v 1.67 2009/01/20 18:59:37 heikki Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@@ -217,8 +217,19 @@ XLogCheckInvalidPages(void)
/*
* XLogReadBuffer
- * A shorthand of XLogReadBufferExtended(), for reading from the main
- * fork.
+ * Read a page during XLOG replay.
+ *
+ * This is a shorthand of XLogReadBufferExtended() followed by
+ * LockBuffer(buffer, BUFFER_LOCK_EXCLUSIVE), for reading from the main
+ * fork.
+ *
+ * (Getting the lock is not really necessary, since we expect that this is
+ * only used during single-process XLOG replay, but some subroutines such
+ * as MarkBufferDirty will complain if we don't. And hopefully we'll get
+ * hot standby support in the future, where there will be backends running
+ * read-only queries during XLOG replay.)
+ *
+ * The returned buffer is exclusively-locked.
*
* For historical reasons, instead of a ReadBufferMode argument, this only
* supports RBM_ZERO (init == true) and RBM_NORMAL (init == false) modes.
@@ -226,22 +237,21 @@ XLogCheckInvalidPages(void)
Buffer
XLogReadBuffer(RelFileNode rnode, BlockNumber blkno, bool init)
{
- return XLogReadBufferExtended(rnode, MAIN_FORKNUM, blkno,
- init ? RBM_ZERO : RBM_NORMAL);
+ Buffer buf;
+ buf = XLogReadBufferExtended(rnode, MAIN_FORKNUM, blkno,
+ init ? RBM_ZERO : RBM_NORMAL);
+ if (BufferIsValid(buf))
+ LockBuffer(buf, BUFFER_LOCK_EXCLUSIVE);
+
+ return buf;
}
/*
* XLogReadBufferExtended
* Read a page during XLOG replay
*
- * This is functionally comparable to ReadBuffer followed by
- * LockBuffer(buffer, BUFFER_LOCK_EXCLUSIVE): you get back a pinned
- * and locked buffer. (Getting the lock is not really necessary, since we
- * expect that this is only used during single-process XLOG replay, but
- * some subroutines such as MarkBufferDirty will complain if we don't.)
- *
- * There's some differences in the behavior wrt. the "mode" argument,
- * compared to ReadBufferExtended:
+ * This is functionally comparable to ReadBufferExtended. There's some
+ * differences in the behavior wrt. the "mode" argument:
*
* In RBM_NORMAL mode, if the page doesn't exist, or contains all-zeroes, we
* return InvalidBuffer. In this case the caller should silently skip the
@@ -306,16 +316,19 @@ XLogReadBufferExtended(RelFileNode rnode, ForkNumber forknum,
Assert(BufferGetBlockNumber(buffer) == blkno);
}
- LockBuffer(buffer, BUFFER_LOCK_EXCLUSIVE);
-
if (mode == RBM_NORMAL)
{
/* check that page has been initialized */
Page page = (Page) BufferGetPage(buffer);
+ /*
+ * We assume that PageIsNew is safe without a lock. During recovery,
+ * there should be no other backends that could modify the buffer at
+ * the same time.
+ */
if (PageIsNew(page))
{
- UnlockReleaseBuffer(buffer);
+ ReleaseBuffer(buffer);
log_invalid_page(rnode, forknum, blkno, true);
return InvalidBuffer;
}