Re: using an end-of-recovery record in all cases

On Wed, Oct 6, 2021 at 7:24 PM Amul Sul <sulamul(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 10:42 PM Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> > On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 12:41 PM Amul Sul <sulamul(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > > No, InRecovery flag get cleared before this point. I think, we can use lastReplayedEndRecPtr what you have suggested in other thread.
> >
> > Hmm, right, that makes sense. Perhaps I should start remembering what
> > I said in my own emails.
> >
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> Here I end up with the attached version where I have dropped the
> changes for standby.c and 018_wal_optimize.pl files. Also, I am not
> sure that we should have the changes for bgwriter.c and slot.c in this
> patch, but that's not touched.
>

Attached is the rebased and updated version. The patch removes the
newly introduced PerformRecoveryXLogAction() function. In addition to
that, removed the CHECKPOINT_END_OF_RECOVERY flag and its related
code. Also, dropped changes for bgwriter.c and slot.c in this patch, which
seem unrelated to this work.

Regards,
Amul