Re: Immediate shutdown during recovery

Hello,

On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 12:40 AM, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 19:53 +0900, Fujii Masao wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 6:56 PM, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > The immediate shutdown (pg_ctl -m i stop) might not be able to
>> > kill the startup process during archive recovery. It's because
>> > the startup process calls system() which ignores SIGQUIT for
>> > executing the restore_command. So, only the startup process
>> > might survive the immediate shutdown and continue redoing up
>> > to the end. Is this desirable behavior? This sounds odd for me.
>>
>> In RestoreArchivedFile(), there is the following code as the safeguard
>> against the termination of restore_command by signal. But the
>> safeguard might not work if restore_command defines its own signal
>> handler for SIGQUIT like pg_standby.
>>
>> > signaled = WIFSIGNALED(rc) || WEXITSTATUS(rc) > 125;
>> >
>> > ereport(signaled ? FATAL : DEBUG2,
>> > (errmsg("could not restore file \"%s\" from archive: return code %d",
>> > xlogfname, rc)));
>
> Agree there is an existing problem.
>
> Suggest we fix it after the main patches are committed.

OK, thanks.

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