Re: prevent immature WAL streaming

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, "Bossart, Nathan" <bossartn(at)amazon(dot)com>, Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com>, "andres(at)anarazel(dot)de" <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, "masao(dot)fujii(at)oss(dot)nttdata(dot)com" <masao(dot)fujii(at)oss(dot)nttdata(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, "mengjuan(dot)cmj(at)alibaba-inc(dot)com" <mengjuan(dot)cmj(at)alibaba-inc(dot)com>, "Jakub(dot)Wartak(at)tomtom(dot)com" <Jakub(dot)Wartak(at)tomtom(dot)com>, Ryo Matsumura <matsumura(dot)ryo(at)fujitsu(dot)com>
Subject: Re: prevent immature WAL streaming
Date: 2021-09-30 14:32:57
Message-ID: 202109301432.mou5kmj3h2r6@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2021-Sep-30, Tom Lane wrote:

> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> > Regardless of this problem, I think we should simply call
> > set_replication_conf unconditionally in init().  Replication connections
> > are now allowed by default on Unix, this would just bring Windows nodes
> > into line with that.
>
> Yeah, I was thinking along the same lines yesterday. The fact that
> pre-commit testing failed to note the problem is exactly because we
> have this random difference between what works by default on Unix
> and what works by default on Windows. Let's close that gap before
> it bites us again.

+1

> There's still the issue of these tests overriding postgresql.conf
> entries made by init(), but maybe we can live with that?

I vote to at least have has_archiving=>1 set wal_level=replica, and
potentially max_wal_senders=2 too (allows pg_basebackup).

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Álvaro Herrera PostgreSQL Developer — https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/

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