Re: PostmasterIsAlive() in recovery (non-USE_POST_MASTER_DEATH_SIGNAL builds)

From: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)oss(dot)nttdata(dot)com>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PostmasterIsAlive() in recovery (non-USE_POST_MASTER_DEATH_SIGNAL builds)
Date: 2020-09-23 14:39:10
Message-ID: cca5e8e2-ffcf-bd3a-f945-b391f74a7a7d@oss.nttdata.com
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On 2020/09/23 12:47, Thomas Munro wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 2:27 PM David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> I've gone as far as running the recovery tests on the v3-0001 patch
>> using a Windows machine. They pass:
>
> Thanks! I pushed that one, because it was effectively a bug fix
> (WaitLatch() without a latch was supposed to work).

Great!

>
> I'll wait longer for feedback on the main patch; perhaps someone has a
> better idea, or wants to take issue with the magic number 1024 (ie
> limit on how many records we'll replay before we notice the postmaster
> has exited), or my plan to harmonise those wait loops? It has a CF
> entry for the next CF.

Does this patch work fine with warm-standby case using pg_standby?
IIUC the startup process doesn't call WaitLatch() in that case, so ISTM that,
with the patch, it cannot detect the postmaster death immediately.

Regards,

--
Fujii Masao
Advanced Computing Technology Center
Research and Development Headquarters
NTT DATA CORPORATION

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