Re: TAP test to cover "EndOfLogTLI != replayTLI" case

At Thu, 27 Jan 2022 15:31:37 +0900, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> wrote in
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 12:13:08PM +0530, Amul Sul wrote:
> > I found the cause for the test failing on window -- is due to the
> > custom archive command setting which wasn't setting the correct window
> > archive directory path.
>
> After reading this patch and this thread, I have noticed that you are
> testing the same thing as Heikki here, patch 0001:
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/52bc9ccd-8591-431b-0086-15d9acf25a3f@iki.fi
>
> The patch sent on the other thread has a better description and shape,
> so perhaps we'd better drop what is posted here in favor of the other
> version. Thoughts?

pg_switch_wal() is more preferable than filling-in a large number of
records as the means to advance segments because it is stable against
changes of wal_segment_size.

As you said, using has_restoring on initializing node_ptr is simpler
than explicitly setting archive_dir from that of another node.

regards.

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Kyotaro Horiguchi
NTT Open Source Software Center