Re: max_standby_delay considered harmful

Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>

From: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>

To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Florian Pflug <fgp@phlo.org>, Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine@hi-media.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>

Date: 2010-05-13T02:46:44Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 4:55 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am wondering if we are not correctly handling the case where we get
> a shutdown request while we are still in the PM_STARTUP state.  It
> looks like we might go ahead and switch to PM_RECOVERY and then
> PM_RECOVERY_CONSISTENT without noticing the shutdown.  There is some
> logic to handle the shutdown when the startup process exits, but if
> the startup process never exits it looks like we might get stuck.

Right. I reported this problem and submitted the patch before.
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2010-04/msg00592.php

Stefan,
Could you check whether the patch fixes the problem you encountered?

Regards,

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Fujii Masao
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