From: | Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com> |
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To: | Nitin Jadhav <nitinjadhavpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: when the startup process doesn't |
Date: | 2021-06-10 10:01:25 |
Message-ID: | 20210610100125.GE16435@telsasoft.com |
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On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 03:19:20PM +0530, Nitin Jadhav wrote:
> > > > + {"log_min_duration_startup_process", PGC_SUSET, LOGGING_WHEN,
> > > >
> > > > I think it should be PGC_SIGHUP, to allow changing it during runtime.
> > > > Obviously it has no effect except during startup, but the change will be
> > > > effective if the current process crashes.
> > > > See also: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20210526001359.GE3676@telsasoft.com
> > >
> > > I did not get exactly how it will change behaviour. In my
> > > understanding, when the server restarts after a crash, it fetches the
> > > value from the config file. So if there is any change that gets
> > > affected. Kindly correct me if I am wrong.
>
> Sorry my understanding was wrong. But I'm not completely convinced
> with the above description saying that the change will be effective if
> the current process crashes.
> AFAIK, whenever we set the GucContext less than PGC_SIGHUP (that is
> either PGC_POSTMASTER or PGC_INTERNAL) then any change in the config
> file will not get affected during restart after crash. If the
> GucContext is greater than or equal to PGC_SIGHUP, then any change in
> the config file will be changed once it receives the SIGHUP signal. So
> it gets affected by a restart after a crash. So since the GucContext
> set here is PGC_SUSET which is greater than PGC_SIGHUP, there is no
> change in the behaviour wrt this point.
Since you agreed that SUSET was wrong, and PGC_POSTMASTER doesn't allow
changing the value without restart, doesn't it follow that SIGHUP is what's
wanted ?
> > I've triple checked the behavior using a patch I submitted for Thomas' syncfs
> > feature. ALTER SYSTEM recovery_init_sync_method=syncfs was not picked up when
> > I sent SIGABRT. But with my patch, if I also do SELECT pg_reload_conf(), then
> > a future crash uses syncfs.
> > https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20210526001359.GE3676@telsasoft.com
>
> The difference is since the behaviour is compared between
> PGC_POSTMASTER and PGC_SIGHUP.
>
> > The GUC definitely isn't SUSET, since it's not useful to write in a (super)
> > user session SET log_min_duration_startup_process=123.
> I agree with this. I may have to change this value as setting in a
> user session is not at all useful. But I am confused between
> PGC_POSTMASTER and PGC_SIGHUP. We should use PGC_SIGHUP if we would
> like to allow the change during restart after a crash. Otherwise
> PGC_POSTMASTER would be sufficient. Kindly share your thoughts.
>
> Thanks & Regards,
> Nitin Jadhav
>
> On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 9:49 PM Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 09, 2021 at 05:09:54PM +0530, Nitin Jadhav wrote:
> > > > + {"log_min_duration_startup_process", PGC_SUSET, LOGGING_WHEN,
> > > >
> > > > I think it should be PGC_SIGHUP, to allow changing it during runtime.
> > > > Obviously it has no effect except during startup, but the change will be
> > > > effective if the current process crashes.
> > > > See also: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20210526001359.GE3676@telsasoft.com
> > >
> > > I did not get exactly how it will change behaviour. In my
> > > understanding, when the server restarts after a crash, it fetches the
> > > value from the config file. So if there is any change that gets
> > > affected. Kindly correct me if I am wrong.
> >
> > I don't think so. I checked and SelectConfigFiles is called only once to read
> > config files and cmdline args. And not called on restart_after_crash.
> >
> > The GUC definitely isn't SUSET, since it's not useful to write in a (super)
> > user session SET log_min_duration_startup_process=123.
> >
> > I've triple checked the behavior using a patch I submitted for Thomas' syncfs
> > feature. ALTER SYSTEM recovery_init_sync_method=syncfs was not picked up when
> > I sent SIGABRT. But with my patch, if I also do SELECT pg_reload_conf(), then
> > a future crash uses syncfs.
> > https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20210526001359.GE3676@telsasoft.com
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