Le 02/12/2016 à 02:08, Karl O. Pinc a écrit :
> On Sun, 27 Nov 2016 21:54:46 +0100
> Gilles Darold <gilles.darold@dalibo.com> wrote:
>
>> I've attached the v15 of the patch
>> I've not applied patch patch_pg_current_logfile-v14.diff.backoff to
>> prevent constant call of logfile_writename() on a busy system (errno =
>> ENFILE | EMFILE).
> I don't think it should be applied and included in the basic
> functionality patch in any case. I think it needs to be submitted as a
> separate patch along with the basic functionality patch. Backing off
> the retry of the current_logfiles write could be overly fancy and
> simply not needed.
>
>> I think this can be done quite simply by testing if
>> log rotate is still enabled. This is possible because function
>> logfile_rotate() is already testing if errno = ENFILE | EMFILE and in
>> this case rotation_disabled is set to true. So the following test
>> should do the work:
>>
>> if (log_metainfo_stale && !rotation_disabled)
>> logfile_writename();
>>
>> This is included in v15 patch.
> I don't see this helping much, if at all.
>
> First, it's not clear just when rotation_disabled can be false
> when log_metainfo_stale is true. The typical execution
> path is for logfile_writename() to be called after rotate_logfile()
> has already set rotataion_disabled to true. logfile_writename()
> is the only place setting log_metainfo_stale to true and
> rotate_logfile() the only place settig rotation_disabled to false.
>
> While it's possible
> that log_metainfo_stale might be set to true when logfile_writename()
> is called from within open_csvlogfile(), this does not help with the
> stderr case. IMO better to just test for log_metaifo_stale at the
> code snippet above.
>
> Second, the whole point of retrying the logfile_writename() call is
> to be sure that the current_logfiles file is updated before the logs
> rotate. Waiting until logfile rotation is enabled defeats the purpose.
Ok, sorry I've misunderstood your previous post. Current v16
attached patch removed your change about log_meta_info
stale and fix the use of sscanf to read the file.
It seems that all fixes have been included in this patch.
Regards
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Gilles Darold
Consultant PostgreSQL
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