On Fri, Nov 26, 2021 at 12:16 PM Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 04:04:23PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> > I have not check the performance implication of that with a micro
> > benchmark or the like, but I can get behind 0001 on consistency
> > grounds between the backend and the frontend.
>
> /* Now create pg_control */
> InitControlFile(sysidentifier);
> - ControlFile->time = checkPoint.time;
> ControlFile->checkPoint = checkPoint.redo;
> ControlFile->checkPointCopy = checkPoint;
> 0001 has a mistake here, no? The initial control file creation goes
> through WriteControlFile(), and not update_controlfile(), so this
> change means that we would miss setting up this timestamp for the
> first time.
>
> @@ -714,7 +714,6 @@ GuessControlValues(void)
> ControlFile.checkPointCopy.oldestActiveXid = InvalidTransactionId;
>
> ControlFile.state = DB_SHUTDOWNED;
> - ControlFile.time = (pg_time_t) time(NULL);
> This one had better not be removed, either, as we require pg_resetwal
> to guess a set of control file values. Removing the one in
> RewriteControlFile() is fine, on the contrary.
My bad, sorry for the sloppy change, corrected it in the attached version.
Regards,
Amul
