| From: | Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> | 
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> | 
| Cc: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi(dot)kyotaro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, Fujii Masao <fujii(at)postgresql(dot)org> | 
| Subject: | Re: Race condition in InvalidateObsoleteReplicationSlots() | 
| Date: | 2021-06-23 14:02:12 | 
| Message-ID: | 202106231402.vusydj6kl25d@alvherre.pgsql | 
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On 2021-Jun-20, Tom Lane wrote:
> Actually ... isn't there a second race, in the opposite direction?
> IIUC, the point of this is that once we force some WAL to be sent
> to the frozen sender/receiver, they'll be killed for failure to
> respond.  But the advance_wal call is not the only possible cause
> of that; a background autovacuum for example could emit some WAL.
> So I fear it's possible for the 'to release replication slot'
> message to come out before we capture $logstart.  I think you
> need to capture that value before the kill not after.
I accounted for all those things and pushed again.
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Álvaro Herrera       Valdivia, Chile
"I can see support will not be a problem.  10 out of 10."    (Simon Wittber)
      (http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2004-12/msg00159.php)
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