Re: Simplify standby state machine a bit in WaitForWALToBecomeAvailable()

From: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath(dot)rupireddyforpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Cc: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Simplify standby state machine a bit in WaitForWALToBecomeAvailable()
Date: 2023-03-04 04:17:05
Message-ID: CALj2ACVdONLuOzOTQ8at+LJT22Renjbb_ZYjwfouHE9byarqwg@mail.gmail.com
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On Sat, Mar 4, 2023 at 8:14 AM Bharath Rupireddy
<bharath(dot)rupireddyforpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Mar 4, 2023 at 8:00 AM Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 03, 2023 at 04:33:39PM -0800, Nathan Bossart wrote:
> > > Given both Bharath and I missed this, perhaps we should add a comment about
> > > this behavior.
> >
> > Makes sense to me to document that in a better way. What about the
> > addition of a short paragraph at the top of XLogFileReadAnyTLI() that
> > explains the behaviors we expect depending on the values of
> > XLogSource? The case of XLOG_FROM_ANY with the order to scan the
> > archives then pg_wal/ for each timeline is the most important bit,
> > surely.
>
> +1. I will send a patch in a bit.

Okay, here's a patch attached.

--
Bharath Rupireddy
PostgreSQL Contributors Team
RDS Open Source Databases
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v1-0001-Clarify-XLogFileReadAnyTLI-s-behaviour-for-XLOG_F.patch application/octet-stream 1.5 KB

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