Re: Corruption during WAL replay

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com>, Ibrar Ahmed <ibrar(dot)ahmad(at)gmail(dot)com>, tejeswarm(at)hotmail(dot)com, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, hlinnaka <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, Masahiko Sawada <masahiko(dot)sawada(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Daniel Wood <hexexpert(at)comcast(dot)net>
Subject: Re: Corruption during WAL replay
Date: 2021-09-24 19:37:51
Message-ID: 2442200.1632512271@sss.pgh.pa.us
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-hackers

Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I like this patch.

I think the basic idea is about right, but I'm not happy with the
three-way delayChkpt business; that seems too cute by three-quarters.
I think two independent boolean flags, one saying "I'm preventing
checkpoint start" and one saying "I'm preventing checkpoint completion",
would be much less confusing and also more future-proof. Who's to say
that we won't ever need both states to be set in the same process?

I also dislike the fact that the patch has made procarray.h depend
on proc.h ... maybe I'm wrong, but I thought that there was a reason
for keeping those independent, if indeed this hasn't actually resulted
in a circular-includes situation. If we avoid inventing that enum type
then there's no need for that. If we do need an enum, maybe it could
be put in some already-common prerequisite header.

regards, tom lane

In response to

Responses

Browse pgsql-hackers by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Robert Haas 2021-09-24 20:08:44 Re: Corruption during WAL replay
Previous Message Tomas Vondra 2021-09-24 19:16:20 Re: logical decoding and replication of sequences