Re: Impact of checkpointer during pg_upgrade

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "Zhijie Hou (Fujitsu)" <houzj(dot)fnst(at)fujitsu(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Sawada Masahiko <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com>, Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Hayato Kuroda (Fujitsu)" <kuroda(dot)hayato(at)fujitsu(dot)com>, vignesh C <vignesh21(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Smith <smithpb2250(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Impact of checkpointer during pg_upgrade
Date: 2023-09-08 04:40:44
Message-ID: ZPqlzIjIvipUCAsb@paquier.xyz
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On Fri, Sep 08, 2023 at 09:14:59AM +0530, Amit Kapila wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 8, 2023 at 9:00 AM Zhijie Hou (Fujitsu)
> <houzj(dot)fnst(at)fujitsu(dot)com> wrote:
>>> I
>>> mean that doing the latter is benefitial for the sake of any patch committed and
>>> as a long-term method to rely on.
>
> What is your worry here? Are you worried that unknowingly in the
> future we could add some other way to invalidate slots during upgrades
> that we won't be able to detect?

Exactly. A safety belt would not hurt, especially if the belt added
is simple. The idea of a backend side elog(ERROR) with
isBinaryUpgrade is tempting in the invalidation slot path.
--
Michael

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