Re: Suppressing useless wakeups in walreceiver

From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath(dot)rupireddyforpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Suppressing useless wakeups in walreceiver
Date: 2022-10-11 17:52:17
Message-ID: 20221011175217.GB1326442@nathanxps13
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On Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 09:34:25AM +0530, Bharath Rupireddy wrote:
> now = t1;
> XLogWalRcvSendReply() /* say it ran for a minute or so for whatever reasons */
> XLogWalRcvSendHSFeedback() /* with patch walrecevier sends hot standby
> feedback more often without properly honouring
> wal_receiver_status_interval because the 'now' isn't actually the
> current time as far as that function is concerned, it is
> t1 + XLogWalRcvSendReply()'s time. */
>
> Well, is this really a problem? I'm not sure about that. Let's hear from others.

For this example, the feedback message would just be sent in the next loop
iteration instead.

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