Re: Replication server timeout patch

On 29.03.2011 07:55, Fujii Masao wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
> <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>>> pq_flush_if_writable() calls internal_flush() without using PG_TRY block.
>>> This seems unsafe because for example pgwin32_waitforsinglesocket()
>>> called by secure_write() can throw ERROR.
>>
>> Perhaps it's time to give up on the assumption that the socket is in
>> blocking mode except within those two functions. Attached patch adds the
>> pq_set_nonblocking() function from your patch, and adds calls to it before
>> all secure_read/write operations to put the socket in the right mode.
>> There's only a few of those operations.
>
> Sounds good.
>
> + pq_set_nonblocking(false); /* XXX: Is this required? */
>
> No. Since secure_close and close_SSL don't use MyProcPort->sock and
> MyProcPort->noblock which can be changed in pq_set_nonblocking,
> I don't think that is required.

Ok, I took that out.

> + pq_putmessage_noblock('d', msgbuf, 1 + sizeof(WalDataMessageHeader) + nbytes);
>
> Don't we need to check the return value of pq_putmessage_noblock? That
> can return EOF when trouble happens (for example the send system call fails).

No, pq_putmessage_noblock doesn't call send() because it enlarges the
buffer to make sure the message fits, and it doesn't anything else that
could fail else. I changed its return type to void, and added an
Assert() to check that the pq_putmessage() call it does internally
indeed doesn't fail.

>> Should we use COMMERROR instead of ERROR if we fail to put the socket in the
>> right mode?
>
> Maybe.

I made it COMMERROR. ERRORs are sent to the client, and you could get
into infinite recursion if sending the ERROR requires setting the
blocking mode again.

Committed with those changes. I also reworded the docs a bit.

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