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

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Florian Pflug <fgp(at)phlo(dot)org>, Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine(at)hi-media(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Stefan's bug (was: max_standby_delay considered harmful)
Date: 2010-05-18 05:26:59
Message-ID: 1274160419.28911.1586.camel@ebony
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On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 12:02 +0900, Fujii Masao wrote:
> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> >> (1)
> >> Smart or fast shutdown requested in PM_STARTUP state always removes
> >> the backup_label file if it exists. But it might be still required
> >> for subsequent recovery. I changed your patch so that additionally
> >> the postmaster skips deleting the backup_label in that case.
> >
> > Don't like the name NeedBackupLabel seems too specific. That really
> > corresponds to "we were in recovery". We should have a couple of
> > super-states that correspond to am in recovery/am not in recovery so we
> > can drive it from that.
>
> ISTM that we can use XLogCtl->SharedRecoveryInProgress for that.
> Is this OK?

That can change state at any time. Would that work?

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Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com

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