At Wed, 26 Apr 2017 14:31:12 +0900, Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com> wrote in
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> On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 12:35 PM, Petr Jelinek
> <petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> > On 26/04/17 01:01, Fujii Masao wrote:
> >>>> However this is overkill for small gain and false wakeup of the
> >>>> launcher is not so harmful (probably we can live with that), so
> >>>> we do nothing here for this issue.
> >>>
> >>> I agree this as a whole. But I think that the main issue here is
> >>> not false wakeups, but 'possible delay of launching new workers
> >>> by 3 minutes at most' (this is centainly a kind of false wakeups,
> >>> though). We can live with this failure when using two-paase
> >>> commmit, but I think it shouldn't happen silently.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> How about providing AtPrepare_ApplyLauncher(void) like the
> >>> follows and calling it in PrepareTransaction?
> >>
> >> Or we should apply the attached patch and handle the 2PC case properly?
> >> I was thinking that it's overkill more than necessary, but that seems not true
> >> as far as I implement that.
> >>
> > Looks like it does not even increase size of the 2pc file, +1 for this.
>
> In my honest opinion, I didn't have a big will that we should handle
> even two-phase commit case, because this case is very rare (I could
> not image such case) and doesn't mean to lead a harmful result such as
> crash of server and returning inconsistent result. it just delays the
> launching worker for at most 3 minutes. We also can deal with this for
> example by making maximum nap time of apply launcher user-configurable
> and document it.
> But if we can deal with it by minimum changes like attached your patch I agree.
This change looks reasonable to me, +1 from me to this.
The patch reads on_commit_launcher_wakeup directly then updates
it via ApplyALuncherWakeupAtCommit() but it's too much to add a
function for the sake of this.
regards,
--
Kyotaro Horiguchi
NTT Open Source Software Center
