Introduce wal_level GUC to explicitly control if information needed for

archival or hot standby should be WAL-logged, instead of deducing that from
other options like archive_mode. This replaces recovery_connections GUC in
the primary, where it now has no effect, but it's still used in the standby
to enable/disable hot standby.

Remove the WAL-logging of "unlogged operations", like creating an index
without WAL-logging and fsyncing it at the end. Instead, we keep a copy of
the wal_mode setting and the settings that affect how much shared memory a
hot standby server needs to track master transactions (max_connections,
max_prepared_xacts, max_locks_per_xact) in pg_control. Whenever the settings
change, at server restart, write a WAL record noting the new settings and
update pg_control. This allows us to notice the change in those settings in
the standby at the right moment, they used to be included in checkpoint
records, but that meant that a changed value was not reflected in the
standby until the first checkpoint after the change.

Bump PG_CONTROL_VERSION and XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC. Whack XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC back to
the sequence it used to follow, before hot standby and subsequent patches
changed it to 0x9003.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/include/access/xlog_internal.h b/src/include/access/xlog_internal.h
index fa21f0a916..3f0930f395 100644
--- a/src/include/access/xlog_internal.h
+++ b/src/include/access/xlog_internal.h
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
  * Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2010, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
  * Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
  *
- * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/include/access/xlog_internal.h,v 1.32 2010/04/12 10:40:43 heikki Exp $
+ * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/include/access/xlog_internal.h,v 1.33 2010/04/28 16:10:43 heikki Exp $
  */
 #ifndef XLOG_INTERNAL_H
 #define XLOG_INTERNAL_H
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ typedef struct XLogContRecord
 /*
  * Each page of XLOG file has a header like this:
  */
-#define XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC 0x9003	/* can be used as WAL version indicator */
+#define XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC 0xD064	/* can be used as WAL version indicator */
 
 typedef struct XLogPageHeaderData
 {