Re: On login trigger: take three

From: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Konstantin Knizhnik <k(dot)knizhnik(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>
Cc: Greg Nancarrow <gregn4422(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: On login trigger: take three
Date: 2020-12-20 07:04:04
Message-ID: CAFj8pRCG5DKv6B_5TdbANJKaYDpgmd2tT3+fUNUH+49_1w0=VQ@mail.gmail.com
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čt 17. 12. 2020 v 19:30 odesílatel Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
napsal:

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> čt 17. 12. 2020 v 14:04 odesílatel Konstantin Knizhnik <
> k(dot)knizhnik(at)postgrespro(dot)ru> napsal:
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>> On 17.12.2020 9:31, Pavel Stehule wrote:
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>> st 16. 12. 2020 v 20:38 odesílatel Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
>> napsal:
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>>> Attached please find new versoin of the patch based on
>>> on_connect_event_trigger_WITH_SUGGESTED_UPDATES.patch
>>>
>>>> So there is still only "disable_client_connection_trigger" GUC?
>>>> because we need possibility to disable client connect triggers and there is
>>>> no such need for other event types.
>>>>
>>>> As you suggested have added "dathaslogontriggers" flag which is set
>>>> when client connection trigger is created.
>>>> This flag is never cleaned (to avoid visibility issues mentioned in my
>>>> previous mail).
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>>> This is much better - I don't see any slowdown when logon trigger is not
>>> defined
>>>
>>> I did some benchmarks and looks so starting language handler is
>>> relatively expensive - it is about 25% and starting handler like event
>>> trigger has about 35%. But this problem can be solved later and elsewhere.
>>>
>>> I prefer the inverse form of disable_connection_trigger. Almost all GUC
>>> are in positive form - so enable_connection_triggger is better
>>>
>>> I don't think so current handling dathaslogontriggers is good for
>>> production usage. The protection against race condition can be solved by
>>> lock on pg_event_trigger
>>>
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>> I thought about it, and probably the counter of connect triggers will be
>> better there. The implementation will be simpler and more robust.
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>> I prefer to implement different approach: unset dathaslogontriggers flag
>> in event trigger itself when no triggers are returned by
>> EventTriggerCommonSetup.
>> I am using double checking to prevent race condition.
>> The main reason for this approach is that dropping of triggers is not
>> done in event_trigger.c: it is done by generic code for all resources.
>> It seems to be there is no right place where decrementing of trigger
>> counters can be inserted.
>> Also I prefer to keep all logon-trigger specific code in one file.
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>> Also, as you suggested, I renamed disable_connection_trigger to
>> enable_connection_trigger.
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>> New version of the patch is attached.
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> yes, it can work
>

for complete review the new field in pg_doc should be documented

Regards

Pavel

> Regards
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> Pavel
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>> --
>> Konstantin Knizhnik
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