Re: Wait event that should be reported while waiting for WAL archiving to finish

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
To: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-02-18T03:39:49Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 10:21:23PM +0900, Fujii Masao wrote:
> On 2020/02/17 18:48, Michael Paquier wrote:
>> Actually, I have some questions:
>> 1) Should a new wait event be added in recoveryPausesHere()?  That
>> would be IMO useful.
> 
> Yes, it's useful, I think. But it's better to implement that
> as a separate patch.

No problem for me.

>> 2) Perhaps those two points should be replaced with WaitLatch(), where
>> we would use the new wait events introduced?
> 
> For what? Maybe it should, but I'm not sure it's worth the trouble.

I don't have more to offer than signal handling consistency for both
without relying on pg_usleep()'s behavior depending on the platform,
and power consumption.  For the recovery pause, the second argument
may not be worth carrying, but we never had this argument for the
archiving wait, did we?  For both, on top of it you don't need to
worry about concurrent issues with the wait events attached around.
--
Michael

Commits

  1. Add wait events for WAL archive and recovery pause.

  2. Add description about GSSOpenServer wait event into document.

  3. Add description about LogicalRewriteTruncate wait event into document.

  4. GSSAPI encryption support

  5. Create and use wait events for read, write, and fsync operations.