Re: Is Recovery actually paused?

On Mon, 8 Feb 2021 07:51:22 +0530
Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On Mon, 8 Feb 2021 at 6:38 AM, Yugo NAGATA <nagata(at)sraoss(dot)co(dot)jp> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Sun, 7 Feb 2021 19:27:02 +0530
> > Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, Feb 7, 2021 at 6:44 PM Bharath Rupireddy
> > > <bharath(dot)rupireddyforpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 10:14 AM Bharath Rupireddy
> > > > <bharath(dot)rupireddyforpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > > > > > We can not do that, basically, under one lock we need to check the
> > > > > > state and set it to pause. Because by the time you release the
> > lock
> > > > > > someone might set it to RECOVERY_NOT_PAUSED then you don't want to
> > set
> > > > > > it to RECOVERY_PAUSED.
> > > > >
> > > > > Got it. Thanks.
> > > >
> > > > Hi Dilip, I have one more question:
> > > >
> > > > + /* test for recovery pause, if user has requested the pause */
> > > > + if (((volatile XLogCtlData *) XLogCtl)->recoveryPauseState ==
> > > > + RECOVERY_PAUSE_REQUESTED)
> > > > + recoveryPausesHere(false);
> > > > +
> > > > + now = GetCurrentTimestamp();
> > > > +
> > > >
> > > > Do we need now = GetCurrentTimestamp(); here? Because, I see that
> > > > whenever the variable now is used within the for loop in
> > > > WaitForWALToBecomeAvailable, it's re-calculated anyways. It's being
> > > > used within case XLOG_FROM_STREAM:
> > > >
> > > > Am I missing something?
> > >
> > > Yeah, I don't see any reason for doing this, maybe it got copy pasted
> > > by mistake. Thanks for observing this.
> >
> > I also have a question:
> >
> > @@ -6270,14 +6291,14 @@ RecoveryRequiresIntParameter(const char
> > *param_name, int currValue, int minValue
> > currValue,
> > minValue)));
> >
> > - SetRecoveryPause(true);
> > + SetRecoveryPause(RECOVERY_PAUSED);
> >
> > ereport(LOG,
> > (errmsg("recovery has paused"),
> > errdetail("If recovery is
> > unpaused, the server will shut down."),
> > errhint("You can then restart the
> > server after making the necessary configuration changes.")));
> >
> > - while (RecoveryIsPaused())
> > + while (GetRecoveryPauseState() !=
> > RECOVERY_NOT_PAUSED)
> > {
> > HandleStartupProcInterrupts();
> >
> >
> >
> > If a user call pg_wal_replay_pause while waiting in
> > RecoveryRequiresIntParameter,
> > the state become 'pause requested' and this never returns to 'paused'.
> > Should we check recoveryPauseState in this loop as in
>
>
> I think the right fix should be that the state should never go from
> ‘paused’ to ‘pause requested’ so I think pg_wal_replay_pause should take
> care of that.

It makes sense to take care of this in pg_wal_replay_pause, but I wonder
it can not handle the case that a user resume and pause again while a sleep.

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Yugo NAGATA <nagata(at)sraoss(dot)co(dot)jp>