Re: [PoC] pg_upgrade: allow to upgrade publisher node

From: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath(dot)rupireddyforpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "Hayato Kuroda (Fujitsu)" <kuroda(dot)hayato(at)fujitsu(dot)com>, Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Zhijie Hou (Fujitsu)" <houzj(dot)fnst(at)fujitsu(dot)com>, Peter Smith <smithpb2250(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com>, vignesh C <vignesh21(at)gmail(dot)com>, Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: [PoC] pg_upgrade: allow to upgrade publisher node
Date: 2023-09-22 08:39:49
Message-ID: CAA4eK1LxPDeSkTttEAG2MPEWO=83vQe_Bja9F4QcCjVn=Wt9rA@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Sep 22, 2023 at 10:57 AM Bharath Rupireddy
<bharath(dot)rupireddyforpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 5:45 PM Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks for the patch. I have some comments on v42:
> >
> > Probably trying to keep it similar with
> > binary_upgrade_create_empty_extension(). I think it depends what
> > behaviour we expect for NULL input.
>
> confirmed_flush_lsn for a logical slot can be null (for instance,
> before confirmed_flush is updated for a newly created logical slot if
> someone calls pg_stat_replication -> pg_get_replication_slots) and
> when it is so, the binary_upgrade_create_empty_extension errors out.
> Is this behaviour wanted? I think the function returning null on null
> input is a better behaviour here.
>

I think if we do return null on null behavior then the caller needs to
add a special case for null value as this function returns bool. We
can probably return false in that case. Does that help to address your
concern?

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With Regards,
Amit Kapila.

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