Re: when the startup process doesn't (logging startup delays)

On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 6:05 AM Bharath Rupireddy
<bharath(dot)rupireddyforpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> If we place just the Assert(!StandbyMode); in
> enable_startup_progress_timeout(), it fails for
> begin_startup_progress_phase() in ResetUnloggedRelations() because the
> InitWalRecovery(), that sets StandbyMode to true, is called before
> ResetUnloggedRelations() . However, with the if (StandbyMode) {
> return; }, we fail to report progress of ResetUnloggedRelations() in a
> standby, which isn't a good idea at all because we only want to
> disable the timeout during the recovery's main loop.

Ugh. Well, in that case, I guess my vote is to forget about this whole
Assert business and just commit what you had in v4. Does that work for
you?

Protecting against specifically the situation where we're in the
standby's main redo apply loop is not really what I had in mind here,
but this is already sort of weirdly complicated-looking, and making it
more weirdly complicated-looking to achieve the kind of protection
that I had in mind doesn't really seem worth it.

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Robert Haas
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