Re: Hot standby, RestoreBkpBlocks and cleanup locks

Simon Riggs wrote:
> The idea outlined before didn't deal with all call points for
> RecordIsCleanupRecord(), so doesn't actually work.

Are we talking about the same thing? If we put the control of locking to
the hands of the redo-function, I don't see why it couldn't use a lock
of the right strength. Surely the redo-function can be taught what lock
it needs to take.

> ISTM easier to do things within the rmgr at the time WAL records are
> written, rather than in the rmgr while handling redo.

I don't like that idea. I'd like to keep the coupling between the
primary and standby to the minimum.

> This avoids another rmgr call and is much more straightforward since we
> define how to redo the record at the time it is written, rather than via
> a separate mechanism that could mismatch.

The code that generates a WAL record and the redo-functions need to
match in general anyway. The strength of the lock is not any more
error-prone than other things that a redo-function must do.

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