Re: Weird failure with latches in curculio on v15

From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, Fujii Masao <fujii(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Weird failure with latches in curculio on v15
Date: 2023-02-06 00:46:31
Message-ID: 20230206004631.GA277434@nathanxps13
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On Sun, Feb 05, 2023 at 04:07:50PM -0800, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2023-02-05 15:57:47 -0800, Nathan Bossart wrote:
>> I agree that the shell overhead isn't the main performance issue,
>> but it's unclear to me how much of this should be baked into
>> PostgreSQL.
>
> I don't know fully either. But just reimplementing all of it in
> different modules doesn't seem like a sane approach either. A lot of it
> is policy that we need to solve once, centrally.
>
>> I mean, we could introduce a GUC that tells us how far ahead to
>> restore and have a background worker (or multiple background workers)
>> asynchronously pull files into a staging directory via the callbacks.
>> Is that the sort of scope you are envisioning?
>
> Closer, at least.

Got it. I suspect we'll want to do something similar for archive modules
eventually, too.

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Nathan Bossart
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