Re: Stefan's bug (was: max_standby_delay considered harmful)

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@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: 2010-05-24T14:40:18Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 10:26 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> This looks pretty reasonable to me, but I guess I feel like it would
>> be better to drive the CancelBackup() decision off of whether we've
>> ever reached PM_RUN rather than consulting XLogCtl.  It just feels
>> cleaner to me to drive all of the postmaster decisions off of the same
>> signalling mechanism rather than having a separate one (that only
>> works because it's used very late in shutdown when we theoretically
>> don't need a lock) just for this one case.
>
> Okay, how about the attached patch? It uses the postmaster-local flag
> "ReachedEndOfRecovery" (better name?) instead of XLogCtl one.

Looks good to me.  I will test and apply.

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