Re: walsummarizer can get stuck when switching timelines

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Zhijie Hou (Fujitsu)" <houzj(dot)fnst(at)fujitsu(dot)com>
Cc: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Andrey Borodin <x4mmm(at)yandex-team(dot)ru>
Subject: Re: walsummarizer can get stuck when switching timelines
Date: 2026-07-22 14:51:41
Message-ID: CA+TgmobiOWKwec1koA6js27srZ=CuXy9OKuQ3BHgDM_GGtGfFw@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Jul 16, 2026 at 2:31 AM Zhijie Hou (Fujitsu)
<houzj(dot)fnst(at)fujitsu(dot)com> wrote:
> I was wondering whether it's worth improving this. We could enable summarize_wal
> on node3 only after the WALs on the new timeline become readable on node3, which
> would eliminate the retry and reduce the test time by about 10 seconds on my
> machine. However, if the intention is to exercise the retry logic in
> WalSummarizerMain as well, the current test is fine as is. Just sharing this in
> case the test time wasn't intentional.

This is a good suggestion, thanks.

Here is v3.

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Robert Haas
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com

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v3-0001-Prevent-walsummarizer-from-getting-stuck-at-a-tim.patch application/octet-stream 17.7 KB

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