Re: prevent immature WAL streaming

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, "Bossart, Nathan" <bossartn(at)amazon(dot)com>, 蔡梦娟(玊于) <mengjuan(dot)cmj(at)alibaba-inc(dot)com>, Jakub Wartak <Jakub(dot)Wartak(at)tomtom(dot)com>
Subject: Re: prevent immature WAL streaming
Date: 2021-08-25 13:56:56
Message-ID: CA+TgmobaJQoJPwRpr63STzKhKTH1FYgDAhAKC_TeaMi-AbnySw@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 11:04 PM Kyotaro Horiguchi
<horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> At Mon, 23 Aug 2021 18:52:17 -0400, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> wrote in
> > I'd also like to have tests. That seems moderately hard, but if we had
> > WAL-molasses that could be used in walreceiver, it could be done. (It
> > sounds easier to write tests with a molasses-archive_command.)
> >
> >
> > [1] https://postgr.es/m/CBDDFA01-6E40-46BB-9F98-9340F4379505@amazon.com
> > [2] https://postgr.es/m/3f9c466d-d143-472c-a961-66406172af96.mengjuan.cmj@alibaba-inc.com
>
> (I'm not sure what "WAL-molasses" above expresses, same as "sugar"?)

I think, but am not 100% sure, that "molasses" here is being used to
refer to fault injection.

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