Re: primary_conninfo missing from pg_stat_wal_receiver

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Vik Fearing <vik(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: primary_conninfo missing from pg_stat_wal_receiver
Date: 2016-06-30 12:41:48
Message-ID: 20160630124148.GA236729@alvherre.pgsql
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Fujii Masao wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 9:30 PM, Michael Paquier
> <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 8:59 PM, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> >> ISTM that we will never be able to get out of this loop if walreceiver
> >> fails to connect to the master (e.g., password is wrong) after we enter
> >> this loop.
> >
> > Wouldn't it be cleaner to just return an error here instead of retrying?
>
> I prefer to return NULL. Now NULL is returned when walreceiver's pid is 0.
> We can just change this logic so that NULL is returned pid is 0 OR the
> flag is false.

For the conninfo only, or for everything?

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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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