Re: non-exclusive backup cleanup is mildly broken - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: non-exclusive backup cleanup is mildly broken
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Msg-id CA+TgmoaNbzJL9kZh_E_nsO_+GTbijFH23Dm-LQiggoeVQvycZQ@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: non-exclusive backup cleanup is mildly broken  (Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>)
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On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 8:44 PM Kyotaro Horiguchi
<horikyota.ntt@gmail.com> wrote:
> However I don't object to the restriction, couldn't we allow the
> cancel_before_shmem_exit to search for the given entry looping over
> the before_shmem_exit array? If we don't do that, an assrtion is needed
> instead.
>
> Since pg_stop_backup_v2 is the only caller to the function in the
> whole server code, making cancel_before_shmem_exit a bit wiser (and
> slower) cannot hurt anyone.

That's actually not true. It's called from
PG_END_ENSURE_ERROR_CLEANUP. Still, it wouldn't cost a lot to fix this
that way. However, I think that it's better to fix it the other way,
as I mentioned in my original email.

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Robert Haas
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