Re: archive status ".ready" files may be created too early

From: "Bossart, Nathan" <bossartn(at)amazon(dot)com>
To: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)oss(dot)nttdata(dot)com>, "alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org" <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
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Subject: Re: archive status ".ready" files may be created too early
Date: 2021-08-25 18:30:10
Message-ID: 011A619B-E365-41D7-9FE0-E19BAF0B547F@amazon.com
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On 8/25/21, 11:01 AM, "Fujii Masao" <masao(dot)fujii(at)oss(dot)nttdata(dot)com> wrote:
> If LogwrtResult.Flush >= EndPos, which means that another process already
> has flushed the record concurrently and updated XLogCtl->LogwrtResult.Flush.
> This situation also means that that another process called
> NotifySegmentsReadyForArchive(LogwrtResult.Flush). Right?

If the segment boundary wasn't registered before the other process
called NotifySegmentsReadyForArchive(), then it couldn't have used the
boundary for deciding which .ready files to create.

> If this understanding is right, there seems no need to wake walwriter up here
> so that it can call NotifySegmentsReadyForArchive(LogwrtResult.Flush) gain.
> Thought?

We're actually discussing this right now in another thread [0]. I
think we might be able to get rid of that part if we move the boundary
registration to before we release the WAL insert lock(s).

Nathan

[0] https://postgr.es/m/DE60B9AA-9670-47DA-9678-6C79BCD884E3%40amazon.com

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