Re: [Patch] pg_rewind: options to use restore_command from recovery.conf or command line

From: Alexander Korotkov <a(dot)korotkov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Cc: Kuntal Ghosh <kuntalghosh(dot)2007(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Alexey Kondratov <a(dot)kondratov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, Liudmila Mantrova <l(dot)mantrova(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andrey Borodin <x4mmm(at)yandex-team(dot)ru>, David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6(at)gmail(dot)com>, vladimirlesk(at)yandex-team(dot)ru, dsarafan(at)yandex-team(dot)ru
Subject: Re: [Patch] pg_rewind: options to use restore_command from recovery.conf or command line
Date: 2020-03-10 15:21:11
Message-ID: CAPpHfdv8KhoEohVG4_qB4OnWw74_gN-7UXmabDFmQUnsAx=y5g@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 3:44 PM Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 01:05:40PM +0300, Alexander Korotkov wrote:
> > Two options seem reasonable to me in this case. The first is to pass
> > length as additional argument as you did. The second option is to
> > make argument a pointer to fixed-size array as following.
> >
> > extern bool BuildRestoreCommand(const char *restoreCommand,
> > const char *xlogpath, /* %p */
> > const char *xlogfname, /* %f */
> > const char *lastRestartPointFname, /* %r */
> > char (*commandResult)[MAXPGPATH]);
> >
> > Passing pointer to array of different size would cause an error. The
> > downside of this approach is that passing palloc'd chunk of memory as
> > commandResult would be less convenient.
>
> Thanks Alexander for the input. Another argument is that what you are
> suggesting here is not the usual project style, so I would still stick
> with two arguments to be consistent.

Yes, another argument is valid as well. I'm OK with current solution.

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Alexander Korotkov
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