Re: history file on replica and double switchover - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Fujii Masao
Subject Re: history file on replica and double switchover
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Msg-id 2823800f-897e-0799-a89a-75aa43f44e5d@oss.nttdata.com
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In response to Re: history file on replica and double switchover  (Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com>)
Responses Re: history file on replica and double switchover
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On 2020/09/04 13:53, Fujii Masao wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2020/09/04 8:29, Anastasia Lubennikova wrote:
>> On 27.08.2020 16:02, Grigory Smolkin wrote:
>>> Hello!
>>>
>>> I`ve noticed, that when running switchover replica to master and back to replica, new history file is streamed to
replica,but not archived,
 
>>> which is not great, because it breaks PITR if archiving is running on replica. The fix looks trivial.
>>> Bash script to reproduce the problem and patch are attached.
>>>
>> Thanks for the report. I agree that it looks like a bug.
> 
> +1
> 
> +            /* Mark history file as ready for archiving */
> +            if (XLogArchiveMode != ARCHIVE_MODE_OFF)
> +                XLogArchiveNotify(fname);
> 
> I agree that history file should be archived in the standby when
> archive_mode=always. But why do we need to do when archive_mode=on?
> I'm just concerned about the case where the primary and standby
> have the shared archive area, and archive_mode is on.

So I updated the patch so that walreceiver marks the streamed history file
as ready for archiving only when archive_mode=always. Patch attached.
Thought?

Regards,

-- 
Fujii Masao
Advanced Computing Technology Center
Research and Development Headquarters
NTT DATA CORPORATION

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