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1 files changed, 18 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/cache/relcache.c b/src/backend/utils/cache/relcache.c
index 464d94021a6..38edc3a790a 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/cache/relcache.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/cache/relcache.c
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
*
*
* IDENTIFICATION
- * $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/utils/cache/relcache.c,v 1.59 1999/02/21 03:49:36 scrappy Exp $
+ * $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/utils/cache/relcache.c,v 1.60 1999/05/01 19:09:44 tgl Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@@ -77,7 +77,6 @@
#include "utils/memutils.h"
#include "utils/rel.h"
#include "utils/relcache.h"
-#include "utils/relcache.h"
#include "utils/syscache.h"
@@ -88,13 +87,6 @@ static void init_irels(void);
static void write_irels(void);
/* ----------------
- * defines
- * ----------------
- */
-#define private static
-#define INIT_FILENAME "pg_internal.init"
-
-/* ----------------
* externs
* ----------------
*/
@@ -1826,11 +1818,20 @@ RelCheckFetch(Relation relation)
* from an initialization file in the data/base/... directory.
*
* + If the initialization file isn't there, then we create the
- * relation descriptor using sequential scans and write it to
+ * relation descriptors using sequential scans and write 'em to
* the initialization file for use by subsequent backends.
*
- * This is complicated and interferes with system changes, but
- * performance is so bad that we're willing to pay the tax.
+ * We could dispense with the initialization file and just build the
+ * critical reldescs the hard way on every backend startup, but that
+ * slows down backend startup noticeably if pg_class is large.
+ *
+ * As of v6.5, vacuum.c deletes the initialization file at completion
+ * of a VACUUM, so that it will be rebuilt at the next backend startup.
+ * This ensures that vacuum-collected stats for the system indexes
+ * will eventually get used by the optimizer --- otherwise the relcache
+ * entries for these indexes will show zero sizes forever, since the
+ * relcache entries are pinned in memory and will never be reloaded
+ * from pg_class.
*/
/* pg_attnumind, pg_classnameind, pg_classoidind */
@@ -1852,9 +1853,9 @@ init_irels(void)
int relno;
#ifndef __CYGWIN32__
- if ((fd = FileNameOpenFile(INIT_FILENAME, O_RDONLY, 0600)) < 0)
+ if ((fd = FileNameOpenFile(RELCACHE_INIT_FILENAME, O_RDONLY, 0600)) < 0)
#else
- if ((fd = FileNameOpenFile(INIT_FILENAME, O_RDONLY | O_BINARY, 0600)) < 0)
+ if ((fd = FileNameOpenFile(RELCACHE_INIT_FILENAME, O_RDONLY | O_BINARY, 0600)) < 0)
#endif
{
write_irels();
@@ -2017,12 +2018,12 @@ write_irels(void)
RelationBuildDescInfo bi;
#ifndef __CYGWIN32__
- fd = FileNameOpenFile(INIT_FILENAME, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC, 0600);
+ fd = FileNameOpenFile(RELCACHE_INIT_FILENAME, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC, 0600);
#else
- fd = FileNameOpenFile(INIT_FILENAME, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC | O_BINARY, 0600);
+ fd = FileNameOpenFile(RELCACHE_INIT_FILENAME, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC | O_BINARY, 0600);
#endif
if (fd < 0)
- elog(FATAL, "cannot create init file %s", INIT_FILENAME);
+ elog(FATAL, "cannot create init file %s", RELCACHE_INIT_FILENAME);
FileSeek(fd, 0L, SEEK_SET);