Re: Avoiding shutdown checkpoint at failover

Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>

To: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2011-11-13T08:13:03Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

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fast_failover.v1.patch (application/octet-stream) patch v1

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:

> When I say skip the shutdown checkpoint, I mean remove it from the
> critical path of required actions at the end of recovery. We can still
> have a normal checkpoint kicked off at that time, but that no longer
> needs to be on the critical path.
>
> Any problems foreseen? If not, looks like a quick patch.

Patch attached for discussion/review.

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