Re: 2pc leaks fds - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: 2pc leaks fds
Date
Msg-id 20200421235422.GA28667@alvherre.pgsql
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In response to Re: 2pc leaks fds  (Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>)
Responses Re: 2pc leaks fds  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>)
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On 2020-Apr-08, Antonin Houska wrote:

> Specifically for 2PC, isn't it better to close some OS-level FD of an
> unrelated table scan and then succeed than to ERROR immediately? Anyway,
> 0dc8ead46 hasn't changed this.

I think for full generality of the interface, we pass a "close" callback
in addition to the "open" callback.  But if we were to pass it only for
WALRead, then there would be no way to call it during XLogReaderFree.

I think the fix Andres applied is okay as far as it goes, but for the
long term we may want to change the interface even further -- maybe by
having these functions be part of the XLogReader state struct.  I have
this code paged out of my head ATM, but maybe tomorrow I can give it a
little think.

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