Re: pg_wal/RECOVERYHISTORY file remains after archive recovery

On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 7:16 PM Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 05:58:21PM +0900, Fujii Masao wrote:
> > So you think that it's better to remove them just after writeTimeLineHistory()?
> > Per the following Sawada-san's comment, I was thinking that idea is basically
> > not good. And, RemoveNonParentXlogFiles() also removes garbage files from
> > pg_wal. It's simpler if similar codes exist near. Thought?
>
> Sawada-san's argument of upthread is that it is not good to put
> exitArchiveRecovery() after writeTimeLineHIstory(), which is what
> cbc55da has done per the reasons mentioned in the commit log, and we
> should not change that.
>
> My argument is we know that RECOVERYXLOG and RECOVERYHISTORY are not
> needed anymore at this stage of recovery, hence we had better remove
> them as soon as possible. I am not convinced that it is a good idea
> to move the cleanup close to RemoveNonParentXlogFiles(). First, this
> is an entirely different part of the logic where the startup process
> has already switched to a new timeline. Second, we add more steps
> between the moment the two files are not needed and the moment they
> are removed, so any failure in-between would cause those files to
> still be there (we cannot say either that we will not manipulate this
> code later on) and we don't want those files to lie around. So,
> mentioning that we do the cleanup just after writeTimeLineHIstory()
> because we don't need them anymore is more consistent with what has
> been done for ages for the end of archive recovery, something that
> cbc55da unfortunately broke.

Ok, I have no objection to remove them just after writeTimeLineHistory().

Regards,

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Fujii Masao