Hi,
On 2021-03-26 18:20:14 +0900, Kyotaro Horiguchi wrote:
> This is because XLogSendPhysical detects removal of the wal segment
> currently reading by shutdown checkpoint. However, there' no fear of
> overwriting of WAL segments at the time.
>
> So I think we can omit the call to CheckXLogRemoved() while
> MyWalSnd->state is WALSNDSTTE_STOPPING because the state comes after
> the shutdown checkpoint completes.
>
> Of course that doesn't help if walsender was running two segments
> behind. There still could be a small window for the failure. But it's
> a great help to save the case of just 1 segment behind.
-1. This seems like a bandaid to make a broken configuration work a tiny
bit better, without actually being meaningfully better.
Greetings,
Andres Freund
