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Re: prevent immature WAL streaming

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, "Bossart, Nathan" <bossartn@amazon.com>, Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>, "andres@anarazel.de" <andres@anarazel.de>, "masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com" <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com>, "pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, "mengjuan.cmj@alibaba-inc.com" <mengjuan.cmj@alibaba-inc.com>, "Jakub.Wartak@tomtom.com" <Jakub.Wartak@tomtom.com>, Ryo Matsumura <matsumura.ryo@fujitsu.com>
Date: 2021-09-30T20:26:04Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> writes:
> Hmm.  Well, as I said, maybe this part of the test isn't worth much
> anyway.  Rather than spending time trying to figure out why isn't this
> triggering the WAL overwriting, I compared the coverage report for
> running only the first test to the coverage report of running only the
> second test.  It turns out that there's no relevant coverage increase in
> the second test.  So I propose just removing that part.

Seems reasonable.  We don't need to spend buildfarm cycles forevermore
on a test that's not adding useful coverage.

			regards, tom lane

Commits

  1. Fix determination of broken LSN in OVERWRITTEN_CONTRECORD

  2. Fix instability in 026_overwrite_contrecord.pl test.

  3. Fix typo

  4. Change recently added test code for stability

  5. Remove unstable, unnecessary test; fix typo

  6. Repair two portability oversights of new test

  7. Fix WAL replay in presence of an incomplete record

  8. Document XLOG_INCLUDE_XID a little better

  9. Revert "Avoid creating archive status ".ready" files too early"

  10. Avoid creating archive status ".ready" files too early

  11. Fix scenario where streaming standby gets stuck at a continuation record.

  12. Teach xlogreader to follow timeline switches

  13. Forbid using pg_xlogfile_name() and pg_xlogfile_name_offset() during