Re: Fix checkpoint skip logic on idle systems by tracking LSN progress

From: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>
Cc: PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Fix checkpoint skip logic on idle systems by tracking LSN progress
Date: 2016-09-28 07:35:52
Message-ID: CAB7nPqR=TL1aYQn673GBCR+2vTMdbzgNU5xH=80GfAzipJeZ4g@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 6:12 AM, David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net> wrote:
> I tried the attached patch set and noticed an interesting behavior. With
> archive_timeout=5 whenever I made a change I would get a WAL segment within
> a few seconds as expected then another one would follow a few minutes later.

That's intentional. We may be able to make XLOG_SWITCH records as not
updating the progress LSN, but I wanted to tackle that as a separate
patch once we got the basics done correctly, which is still what I
think this patch is doing. I should have been more precise upthread:
this patch makes the handling of checkpoint skip logic correct for
only standby snapshots, not segment switches, and puts the infra to
handle other things.
--
Michael

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