Re:[PATCH]A minor improvement to the error-report in SimpleLruWriteAll()

From: "Long Song" <songlong88(at)126(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re:[PATCH]A minor improvement to the error-report in SimpleLruWriteAll()
Date: 2024-05-28 12:15:59
Message-ID: 5b5d9c66.a708.18fbf20f618.Coremail.songlong88@126.com
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Hi,
Actually, I still wonder why only the error message
of the last failure to close the file was recorded.
For this unusual situation, it is acceptable to
record all failure information without causing
too much logging.
Was it designed that way on purpose?

At 2024-05-25 17:29:00, "Long Song" <songlong88(at)126(dot)com> wrote:

Hi hackers,
When I read the code, I noticed that in SimpleLruWriteAll(), only the last error is 
recorded when the file fails to close. Like the following,
```void
SimpleLruWriteAll(SlruCtl ctl, bool allow_redirtied)
{
        SlruShared      shared = ctl->shared;
        SlruWriteAllData fdata;
        int64           pageno = 0;
        int                     prevbank = SlotGetBankNumber(0);
        bool            ok;
...
        /*
         * Now close any files that were open
         */
        ok = true;
        for (int i = 0; i < fdata.num_files; i++)
        {
                if (CloseTransientFile(fdata.fd[i]) != 0)
                {
                        slru_errcause = SLRU_CLOSE_FAILED;
                        slru_errno = errno;
                        pageno = fdata.segno[i] * SLRU_PAGES_PER_SEGMENT;
                        ok = false;
                }
        }
        if (!ok)
                SlruReportIOError(ctl, pageno, InvalidTransactionId);
```
// Here, SlruReportIOError() is called only once, meaning that the last error message is
 recorded. In my opinion, since failure to close a file is not common, logging an error 
message every time a failure occurs will not result in much log growth, but detailed error 
logging will help in most cases.

So, I changed the code to move the call to SlruReportIOError() inside the while loop.

Attached is the patch, I hope it can help.

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