Re: How to reliably detect if it's a promoting standby

From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, jaime(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com, david(at)fetter(dot)org
Subject: Re: How to reliably detect if it's a promoting standby
Date: 2010-10-20 14:35:07
Message-ID: 4CBEFE1B.7050505@enterprisedb.com
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On 20.10.2010 17:32, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
>>> pg_is_in_recovery() returns a bool, are you proposing to change that?
>>
>> No. I just thought about adding more condition when it returns true.
>
> Here is the patch. Comments are welcome!
>...
> Datum
> pg_is_in_recovery(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
> {
> ! /* use volatile pointer to prevent code rearrangement */
> ! volatile WalRcvData *walrcv = WalRcv;
> !
> ! PG_RETURN_BOOL(RecoveryInProgress()&& walrcv->walRcvState == WALRCV_RUNNING);
> }
>

This returns 'false' if you're in hot standby mode running against an
archive. That seems wrong, I don't think the walreceiver state should
play any role in this.

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Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

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