Re: Support for N synchronous standby servers - take 2

On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 2:18 PM, Kyotaro HORIGUCHI
<horiguchi(dot)kyotaro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp> wrote:
> At Tue, 5 Apr 2016 20:17:21 +0900, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote in <CAHGQGwE8_F79BUpC5TmJ7aazXU=Uju0VznFCCKDK57-wNpHV-g(at)mail(dot)gmail(dot)com>
>> >> list_member_int() performs the loop internally. So I'm not sure how much
>> >> adding extra list_member_int() here can optimize this processing.
>> >> Another idea is to make SyncRepGetSyncStandby() check whether I'm sync
>> >> standby or not. In this idea, without adding extra loop, we can exit earilier
>> >> in the case where I'm not a sync standby. Does this make sense?
>> >
>> > The list_member_int() is also performed in the "(snip)" part. So
>> > SyncRepGetSyncStandbys() returning am_sync seems making sense.
>> >
>> > sync_standbys = SyncRepGetSyncStandbys(am_sync);
>> >
>> > /*
>> > * Quick exit if I am not synchronous or there's not
>> > * enough synchronous standbys
>> > * /
>> > if (!*am_sync || list_length(sync_standbys) < SyncRepConfig->num_sync)
>> > {
>> > list_free(sync_standbys);
>> > return false;
>> > }
>>
>> Thanks for the comment! I changed SyncRepGetSyncStandbys() so that
>> it checks whether we're managing a sync standby or not.
>> Attached is the updated version of the patch. I also applied several
>> review comments to the patch.
>
> It still does list_member_int but it can be gotten rid of as the
> attached patch.

Thanks for the review!

>
> regards,
>
> diff --git a/src/backend/replication/syncrep.c b/src/backend/replication/syncrep.c
> index 9b2137a..6998bb8 100644
> --- a/src/backend/replication/syncrep.c
> +++ b/src/backend/replication/syncrep.c
> @@ -590,6 +590,10 @@ SyncRepGetSyncStandbys(bool *am_sync)
> if (XLogRecPtrIsInvalid(walsnd->flush))
> continue;
>
> + /* Notify myself as 'synchonized' if I am */
> + if (am_sync != NULL && walsnd == MyWalSnd)
> + *am_sync = true;
> +
> /*
> * If the priority is equal to 1, consider this standby as sync
> * and append it to the result. Otherwise append this standby
> @@ -598,8 +602,6 @@ SyncRepGetSyncStandbys(bool *am_sync)
> if (this_priority == 1)
> {
> result = lappend_int(result, i);
> - if (am_sync != NULL && walsnd == MyWalSnd)
> - *am_sync = true;
> if (list_length(result) == SyncRepConfig->num_sync)
> {
> list_free(pending);
> @@ -630,9 +632,6 @@ SyncRepGetSyncStandbys(bool *am_sync)
> {
> bool needfree = (result != NIL && pending != NIL);
>
> - if (am_sync != NULL && !(*am_sync))
> - *am_sync = list_member_int(pending, MyWalSnd->slotno);
> -
> result = list_concat(result, pending);
> if (needfree)
> pfree(pending);
> @@ -640,6 +639,13 @@ SyncRepGetSyncStandbys(bool *am_sync)
> }
>
> /*
> + * The pending list contains eventually potentially-synchronized standbys
> + * and this walsender may be one of them. So once reset am_sync.
> + */
> + if (am_sync != NULL)
> + *am_sync = false;
> +
> + /*

This code seems wrong in the case where this walsender is in the result list.
So I adopted another logic. Attached is the updated version of the patch.

Regards,

--
Fujii Masao