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  1. WiredTiger
  2. WT-4674

Instantiate birthmark records using in-memory metadata

    • Type: Icon: Improvement Improvement
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • Priority: Icon: Major - P3 Major - P3
    • WT10.0.0, 4.4.0-rc0, 4.7.0
    • Affects Version/s: None
    • Component/s: None
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    • 8
    • Storage Engines 2019-07-19, Storage Engines 2019-07-29

      When doing lookaside eviction, the timestamp information for the on-disk values gets written into the lookaside in the form of birthmark records. A birthmark record in the lookaside is needed because the on-disk format doesn't carry any timestamp information.

      When re-instantiating a page that was lookaside evicted, we need to read the lookaside information immediately to be able to restore these timestamp value for the on-disk records. We have identified this to be the only information we need that would help us move towards not having to read the lookaside file when re-instantiating the page.

      This ticket will define the contents of the metadata that we will need to store on a page to instantiate the birthmark records without having to read the lookaside. This ticket also tracks the work of populating this metadata when doing a lookaside eviction and then instantiating birthmark records from this metadata.

            Assignee:
            sulabh.mahajan@mongodb.com Sulabh Mahajan
            Reporter:
            jocelyn.del-prado@mongodb.com Jocelyn del Prado
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