Re: Race conditions with WAL sender PID lookups

From: Erik Rijkers <er(at)xs4all(dot)nl>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Race conditions with WAL sender PID lookups
Date: 2017-06-07 21:00:59
Message-ID: d3e68b2044adf45eaa7235fd245933c7@xs4all.nl
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On 2017-06-07 20:31, Robert Haas wrote:

> [...]
>
> [ Side note: Erik's report on this thread initially seemed to suggest
> that we needed this patch to make logical decoding stable. But my
> impression is that this is belied by subsequent developments on other
> threads, so my theory is that this patch was never really related to
> the problem, but rather than by the time Erik got around to testing
> this patch, other fixes had made the problems relatively rare, and the
> apparently-improved results with this patch were just chance. If that
> theory is wrong, it would be good to hear about it. ]

Yes, agreed; I was probably mistaken.

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