--
-- Create an alternative tablespace and move the heaptest table to it, causing
-- it to be rewritten and all the blocks to reliably evicted from shared
--- buffers -- guaranteeing actual reads when we next select from it.
+-- buffers -- guaranteeing actual reads when we next select from it in the
+-- same transaction. The heaptest table is smaller than the default
+-- wal_skip_threshold, so a wal_level=minimal commit reads the table into
+-- shared_buffers. A transaction delays that and excludes any autovacuum.
SET allow_in_place_tablespaces = true;
CREATE TABLESPACE regress_test_stats_tblspc LOCATION '';
SELECT sum(reads) AS stats_bulkreads_before
FROM pg_stat_io WHERE context = 'bulkread' \gset
+BEGIN;
ALTER TABLE heaptest SET TABLESPACE regress_test_stats_tblspc;
-- Check that valid options are not rejected nor corruption reported
-- for a non-empty table
-------+--------+--------+-----
(0 rows)
+COMMIT;
-- verify_heapam should have read in the page written out by
-- ALTER TABLE ... SET TABLESPACE ...
-- causing an additional bulkread, which should be reflected in pg_stat_io.
--
-- Create an alternative tablespace and move the heaptest table to it, causing
-- it to be rewritten and all the blocks to reliably evicted from shared
--- buffers -- guaranteeing actual reads when we next select from it.
+-- buffers -- guaranteeing actual reads when we next select from it in the
+-- same transaction. The heaptest table is smaller than the default
+-- wal_skip_threshold, so a wal_level=minimal commit reads the table into
+-- shared_buffers. A transaction delays that and excludes any autovacuum.
SET allow_in_place_tablespaces = true;
CREATE TABLESPACE regress_test_stats_tblspc LOCATION '';
SELECT sum(reads) AS stats_bulkreads_before
FROM pg_stat_io WHERE context = 'bulkread' \gset
+BEGIN;
ALTER TABLE heaptest SET TABLESPACE regress_test_stats_tblspc;
-
-- Check that valid options are not rejected nor corruption reported
-- for a non-empty table
SELECT * FROM verify_heapam(relation := 'heaptest', skip := 'none');
SELECT * FROM verify_heapam(relation := 'heaptest', skip := 'all-frozen');
SELECT * FROM verify_heapam(relation := 'heaptest', skip := 'all-visible');
SELECT * FROM verify_heapam(relation := 'heaptest', startblock := 0, endblock := 0);
+COMMIT;
-- verify_heapam should have read in the page written out by
-- ALTER TABLE ... SET TABLESPACE ...