Re: Infinite loop on master shutdown - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Kyotaro HORIGUCHI
Subject Re: Infinite loop on master shutdown
Date
Msg-id 20180518.093503.151058131.horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp
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In response to Re: Infinite loop on master shutdown  (Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>)
List pgsql-hackers
At Thu, 17 May 2018 09:20:01 -0700, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote in
<20180517162001.rzd7l6g2h66hvzvd@alap3.anarazel.de>
> Hi,
> 
> On 2018-05-17 17:19:00 +0900, Kyotaro HORIGUCHI wrote:
> > Hello, as in pgsql-bug ML.
> > 
> > https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20180517.170021.24356216.horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp
> > 
> > Master can go into infinite loop on shutdown. But it is caused by
> > a broken database like storage rolled-back one. (The steps to
> > replay this is shown in the above mail.)
> > 
> > I think this can be avoided by rejecting a standby if it reports
> > that write LSN is smaller than flush LSN after catching up.
> > 
> > Is it worth fixing?
> 
> I'm very doubtful. If you do bad stuff to a standby, bad things can
> happen...

Yes, I doubted its worthiness since I didn't find more natural
way to cause that.

Thanks for the opinion.

regards.

-- 
Kyotaro Horiguchi
NTT Open Source Software Center



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