Re: allow online change primary_conninfo

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Sergei Kornilov <sk@zsrv.org>
Cc: PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2018-11-26T17:46:36Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Hi,

On 2018-11-26 12:30:06 +0300, Sergei Kornilov wrote:
> Hmm... I considered SIGHUP processing was in fast loop and therefore shutdown should be fast. But i recheck code and found a possible long loop without processing SIGHUP (in case we receive new data faster than writes to disk). Ok, i will revert back.
> How about write to WalRcvData only clobbered conninfo?

I'm not sure I understand what you mean?  The way I'd solve this is that
that only walreceiver, at startup, writes out its conninfo/slot_name,
sourcing the values from the GUCs. That way there's no issue with values
being overwritten early.

- Andres


Commits

  1. Allow walreceiver configuration to change on reload