An inplace update's invalidation messages are part of its transaction's commit record. However, the update survives even if its transaction aborts or we stop recovery before replaying its transaction commit. After recovery, a backend that started in recovery could update the row without incorporating the inplace update. That could result in a table with an index, yet relhasindex=f. That is a source of index corruption. This bulk invalidation avoids the functional consequences. A future change can fix the !RecoveryInProgress() scenario without changing the WAL format. Back-patch to v17 - v12 (all supported versions). v18 will instead add invalidations to WAL. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20240618152349.7f.nmisch@google.com
PostgreSQL Database Management System
This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL database management system.
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions. This distribution also contains C language bindings.
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