Re: Correct comment in StartupXLOG().

From: Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Amul Sul <sulamul(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Correct comment in StartupXLOG().
Date: 2021-02-03 09:17:56
Message-ID: CAFiTN-v2o_JUz7PSdBMXxbMLBWG6Wzzxcysg3+3CTutR5hfKwQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 2:28 PM Amul Sul <sulamul(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> SharedRecoveryState member of XLogCtl is no longer a boolean flag, got changes
> in 4e87c4836ab9 to enum but, comment referring to it still referred as the
> boolean flag which is pretty confusing and incorrect.

+1 for the comment change

> Also, the last part of the same comment is as:
>
> " .. although the boolean flag to allow WAL is probably atomic in
> itself, .....",
>
> I am a bit confused here too about saying "atomic" to it, is that correct?
> I haven't done anything about it, only replaced the "boolean flag" to "recovery
> state" in the attached patch.

I don't think the atomic is correct, it's no more boolean so it is
better we get rid of this part of the comment

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Regards,
Dilip Kumar
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com

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