At Wed, 3 Aug 2022 18:16:33 +0530, Ashutosh Sharma <ashu.coek88@gmail.com> wrote in > Following comment in RemoveNonParentXlogFiles() says that we are trying to > remove any WAL file whose segment number is >= the segment number of the > first WAL file on the new timeline. However, looking at the code, I can say > that we are trying to remove the WAL files from the previous timeline whose > segment number is just greater than (not equal to) the segment number of > the first WAL file in the new timeline. I think we should improve this > comment, thoughts? > > /* > * Remove files that are on a timeline older than the new one we're > * switching to, but with a segment number >= the first segment on > the > * new timeline. > */ > if (strncmp(xlde->d_name, switchseg, 8) < 0 && > strcmp(xlde->d_name + 8, switchseg + 8) > 0)
I'm not sure I'm fully getting your point. The current comment is correctly saying that it removes the segments "on a timeline older than the new one". I agree about segment comparison.
Yeah my complaint is about the comment on segment comparison for removal.
So, if I changed that comment, I would finish with the following change.
- * switching to, but with a segment number >= the first segment on + * switching to, but with a segment number greater than the first segment on
which looks correct to me and will inline it with the code.
That disagreement started at the time the code was introduced by b2a5545bd6. Leaving the last segment in the old timeline is correct since it is renamed to .partial later. If timeline switch happened just at segment boundary, that segment would not not be created.
Yeah, that's why we keep the last segment (partially written) from the old timeline, which means we're not deleting it here. So the comment should not be saying that we are also removing the last wal segment from the old timeline which is equal to the first segment from the new timeline.
