Re: Patch proposal: New hooks in the connection path

Hi,

On 7/12/22 2:58 PM, Drouvot, Bertrand wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 7/11/22 8:18 AM, Drouvot, Bertrand wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The use case would be to increment a counter in shared memory (or
>> most probably within an hash table) to reflect the number of times a
>> startup packet timeout occurred.
>>
>> Reading the comments in/related to BackendInitialize() I understand
>> that's definitely not safe to write in shared memory for the
>> EXEC_BACKEND case, but wouldn't it be safe for the non EXEC_BACKEND
>> case?
>>
>> BTW, it makes me realize that the hook being fired in the bad startup
>> packet case:
>>
>>         /*
>>          * Stop here if it was bad or a cancel packet.
>> ProcessStartupPacket
>>          * already did any appropriate error reporting.
>>          */
>>         if (status != STATUS_OK)
>> +       {
>> +               if (FailedConnection_hook)
>> +                       (*FailedConnection_hook)
>> (FCET_BAD_STARTUP_PACKET, port);
>>                 proc_exit(0);
>> +       }
>>
>> is not safe for the EXEC_BACKEND case.
>>
> What about the idea to trigger the hook for the STARTUP PACKET TIMEOUT
> and BAD STARTUP PACKET only for the non EXEC_BACKEND/Windows cases?
>
> I'm tempted to think it's better to have some cases where one could
> benefit from the hook as opposed to none.
>
> Thoughts?

Please find attached v2-0004-connection_hooks.patch as an attempt of
doing so.

Thanks

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Bertrand Drouvot
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