Re: pg_ctl promote wait

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_ctl promote wait
Date: 2016-02-19 18:58:30
Message-ID: 56C765D6.4040701@gmx.net
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On 2/19/16 10:06 AM, Fujii Masao wrote:
> One concern is that there can be a "time" after the pg_control's state
> is changed to DB_IN_PRODUCTION and before the server is able to
> start accepting normal (not read-only) connections. So if users try to
> start write transaction just after pg_ctl promote -w ends, they might
> get an error because the server is still in recovery, i.e., the startup
> process is running.

I think that window would be acceptable.

If not, then the way to deal with it would seem to be to create an
entirely new mechanism to communicate with pg_ctl (e.g., a file) and
call that at the very end of StartupXLOG(). I'm not sure that that is
worth it.

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