Re: ACK from walreceiver to walsender - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Fujii Masao
Subject Re: ACK from walreceiver to walsender
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Msg-id 3f0b79eb1001080104j3559ae5cp87e4ae78fd1115f8@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: ACK from walreceiver to walsender  (Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>)
Responses Re: ACK from walreceiver to walsender  (Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>)
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On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> Fujii Masao wrote:
>> Hi Heikki,
>>
>> http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=users/heikki/postgres.git;a=commit;h=ebaa89ce8906e0ec45f105d083a0360b1f8bc7ca
>>
>> You dropped all the ACKs from walreceiver to walsender. I have no objection
>> to that, but I think that walsender should handle at least 'X' (which means
>> that the standby is closing down the socket) and EOF (which means unexpected
>> loss of standby connection) messages from walreceiver. Otherwise, walsender
>> might be unable to detect the shutdown of walreceiver for a while.
>
> Yeah, I just noticed that myself :-(. I guess we'll still have to use
> select() in the walreceiver loop to detect that then.
>
> I don't think we need to treat 'X' differently from EOF. You get an
> error anyway if the write() fails. That's actually a bit annoying, you
> get a "could not send data to client" error in the log every time a
> standby disconnects for any reason.

Yes. And, when walreceiver exits, it sends 'X' message by calling PQfinish().
So I think it's neater for walsender to treat also 'X'. Thought?

Regards,

-- 
Fujii Masao
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
NTT Open Source Software Center


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