Re: [PATCH] Race condition in logical walsender causes long postgresql shutdown delay

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2019-09-11T19:52:33Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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On 2019-Sep-03, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> On 2019-Jul-25, Craig Ringer wrote:
> 
> > Patch attached.
> 
> Here's a non-broken version of this patch.  I have not done anything
> other than reflowing the new comment.

Reading over this code, I noticed that the detection of the catch-up
state ends up being duplicate code, so I would rework that function as
in the attached patch.

The naming of those flags (got_SIGUSR2, got_STOPPING) is terrible, but
I'm not going to change that in a backpatchable bug fix.

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Commits

  1. Fix minor bug in logical-replication walsender shutdown

  2. Prevent possibility of panics during shutdown checkpoint.