Re: Is it correct to update db state in control file as "shutting down" during end-of-recovery checkpoint?

On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 10:58 AM Jaime Casanova
<jcasanov(at)systemguards(dot)com(dot)ec> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Dec 09, 2021 at 07:41:52AM +0530, Bharath Rupireddy wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 8, 2021 at 11:02 PM Bossart, Nathan <bossartn(at)amazon(dot)com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On 12/8/21, 3:29 AM, "Bharath Rupireddy" <bharath(dot)rupireddyforpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > > > Thanks for your thoughts. I'm fine either way, hence attaching two
> > > > patches here with and I will leave it for the committer 's choice.
> > > > 1) v1-0001-Add-DB_IN_END_OF_RECOVERY_CHECKPOINT-state-for-co.patch --
> > > > adds new db state DB_IN_END_OF_RECOVERY_CHECKPOINT for control file.
> > > > 2) v1-0001-Skip-control-file-db-state-updation-during-end-of.patch --
> > > > just skips setting db state to DB_SHUTDOWNING and DB_SHUTDOWNED in
> > > > case of end-of-recovery checkpoint so that the state will be
> > > > DB_IN_CRASH_RECOVERY which then changes to DB_IN_PRODUCTION.
> > >
> > > I've bumped this one to ready-for-committer. For the record, my
> > > preference is the second patch (for the reasons discussed upthread).
> > > Both patches might benefit from a small comment or two, too.
> >
> > Thanks. I've added a comment to the patch
> > v2-0001-Skip-control-file-db-state-updation-during-end-of.patch. The
> > other patch remains the same as the new state
> > DB_IN_END_OF_RECOVERY_CHECKPOINT introduced there says it all.

> Now; I do think that the secondd patch, the one that just skips update
> of the state in control file, is the way to go. The other patch adds too
> much complexity for a small return.

Thanks. Attaching the above patch.

Regards,
Bharath Rupireddy.