pgsql: Simplify and improve ProcessStandbyHSFeedbackMessage logic. - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Tom Lane
Subject pgsql: Simplify and improve ProcessStandbyHSFeedbackMessage logic.
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Msg-id E1RH2Ho-0006Li-Ny@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Simplify and improve ProcessStandbyHSFeedbackMessage logic.

There's no need to clamp the standby's xmin to be greater than
GetOldestXmin's result; if there were any such need this logic would be
hopelessly inadequate anyway, because it fails to account for
within-database versus cluster-wide values of GetOldestXmin.  So get rid of
that, and just rely on sanity-checking that the xmin is not wrapped around
relative to the nextXid counter.  Also, don't reset the walsender's xmin if
the current feedback xmin is indeed out of range; that just creates more
problems than we already had.  Lastly, don't bother to take the
ProcArrayLock; there's no need to do that to set xmin.

Also improve the comments about this in GetOldestXmin itself.

Branch
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REL9_1_STABLE

Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/d1d094e4cf7d80cb2b4f68b5e8ce11aa9ebcbf3c

Modified Files
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src/backend/replication/walsender.c |  105 ++++++++++++++++-------------------
src/backend/storage/ipc/procarray.c |   50 ++++++++++------
2 files changed, 79 insertions(+), 76 deletions(-)


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