Re: Cascade replication

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 3:30 AM, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
>> Do you think you'll submit a new version of the patch this commitfest?
>
> Yes. I'm now updating the patch according to Simon's comments.
> I will submit it today.

Attached is the updated version which addresses all the issues raised by Simon.

> The risk you describe already exists in current code.
>
> I regard it as a non-risk. The unlink() and the rename() are executed
> consecutively, so the gap between them is small, so the chance of a
> SIGKILL in that gap at the same time as losing the archive seems low,
> and we can always get that file from the master again if we are
> streaming. Any code you add to "fix" this will get executed so rarely
> it probably won't work when we need it to.
>
> In the current scheme we restart archiving from the last restartpoint,
> which exists only on the archive. This new patch improves upon this by
> keeping the most recent files locally, so we are less expose in the
> case of archive unavailability. So this patch already improves things
> and we don't need any more than that. No extra code please, IMHO.

Yes, I added no extra code for the risk I raised upthread.

> In #2, there is another problem; walsender might have the pre-existing file
> open, so the startup process would need to request walsenders to close the
> file before removing (or renaming) it, wait for new file to appear and open it
> again.

I implemented this.

Regards,

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