fix archive module shutdown callback

From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: fix archive module shutdown callback
Date: 2022-10-15 22:13:28
Message-ID: 20221015221328.GB1821022@nathanxps13
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Hi hackers,

Presently, when an archive module sets up a shutdown callback, it will be
called upon ERROR/FATAL (via PG_ENSURE_ERROR_CLEANUP), when the archive
library changes (via HandlePgArchInterrupts()), and upon normal shutdown.
There are a couple of problems with this:

* HandlePgArchInterrupts() calls the shutdown callback directly before
proc_exit(). However, the PG_ENSURE_ERROR_CLEANUP surrounding the call to
pgarch_MainLoop() sets up a before_shmem_exit callback that also calls the
shutdown callback. This means that the shutdown callback will be called
twice whenever archive_library is changed via SIGHUP.

* PG_ENSURE_ERROR_CLEANUP is intended for both ERROR and FATAL. However,
the archiver operates at the bottom of the exception stack, so ERRORs are
treated as FATALs. This means that PG_ENSURE_ERROR_CLEANUP is excessive.
We only need to set up the before_shmem_exit callback.

To fix, the attached patch removes the use of PG_ENSURE_ERROR_CLEANUP and
the call to the shutdown callback in HandlePgArchInterrupts() in favor of
just setting up a before_shmem_exit callback in LoadArchiveLibrary().

--
Nathan Bossart
Amazon Web Services: https://aws.amazon.com

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fix_shutdown_cb.patch text/x-diff 1.2 KB

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