Re: [Patch] ALTER SYSTEM READ ONLY

From: amul sul <sulamul(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [Patch] ALTER SYSTEM READ ONLY
Date: 2020-06-19 03:58:53
Message-ID: CAAJ_b96Lb+RXNiZ3=iikVw8DuV_xs=Ka1N9hwxMF46X+yArZyQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 8:23 PM Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 5:55 AM Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > For buffer replacement, many-a-times we have to also perform
> > XLogFlush, what do we do for that? We can't proceed without doing
> > that and erroring out from there means stopping read-only query from
> > the user perspective.
>
> I think we should stop WAL writes, then XLogFlush() once, then declare
> the system R/O. After that there might be more XLogFlush() calls but
> there won't be any new WAL, so they won't do anything.
>
Yeah, the proposed v1 patch does the same.

Regards,
Amul

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