Re: Making WAL receiver startup rely on GUC context for primary_conninfo and primary_slot_name

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Cc: Sergei Kornilov <sk(at)zsrv(dot)org>, Donald Dong <xdong(at)csumb(dot)edu>, "pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com" <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "ams(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com" <ams(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com" <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Making WAL receiver startup rely on GUC context for primary_conninfo and primary_slot_name
Date: 2019-01-11 00:52:53
Message-ID: 20190111005253.6lkusznxsbhwwpid@alap3.anarazel.de
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On 2019-01-11 09:50:49 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 04:41:47PM -0800, Andres Freund wrote:
> > I still think this whole direction of accessing the GUC in walreceiver
> > is a bad idea and shouldn't be pursued further. There's definite
> > potential for startup process and WAL receiver having different states
> > of GUCs, the code doesn't get meaningfully simpler, the GUC value checks
> > in walreceiver make for horrible reporting up the chain.
>
> Did you notice the set of messages from upthread? The code *gets*
> simpler by removing ready_to_display and the need to manipulate the
> non-clobbered connection string sent directly from the startup
> process.

It's a minor simplification for code that's existed for quite a
while. Not worth it.

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