Re: Is it correct to update db state in control file as "shutting down" during end-of-recovery checkpoint? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jaime Casanova
Subject Re: Is it correct to update db state in control file as "shutting down" during end-of-recovery checkpoint?
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In response to Re: Is it correct to update db state in control file as "shutting down" during end-of-recovery checkpoint?  (Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Is it correct to update db state in control file as "shutting down" during end-of-recovery checkpoint?
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On Thu, Dec 09, 2021 at 07:41:52AM +0530, Bharath Rupireddy wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 8, 2021 at 11:02 PM Bossart, Nathan <bossartn@amazon.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 12/8/21, 3:29 AM, "Bharath Rupireddy" <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Thanks for your thoughts. I'm fine either way, hence attaching two
> > > patches here with and I will leave it for the committer 's choice.
> > > 1) v1-0001-Add-DB_IN_END_OF_RECOVERY_CHECKPOINT-state-for-co.patch --
> > > adds new db state DB_IN_END_OF_RECOVERY_CHECKPOINT for control file.
> > > 2) v1-0001-Skip-control-file-db-state-updation-during-end-of.patch --
> > > just skips setting db state to DB_SHUTDOWNING and DB_SHUTDOWNED in
> > > case of end-of-recovery checkpoint so that the state will be
> > > DB_IN_CRASH_RECOVERY which then changes to DB_IN_PRODUCTION.
> >
> > I've bumped this one to ready-for-committer.  For the record, my
> > preference is the second patch (for the reasons discussed upthread).
> > Both patches might benefit from a small comment or two, too.
> 
> Thanks. I've added a comment to the patch
> v2-0001-Skip-control-file-db-state-updation-during-end-of.patch. The
> other patch remains the same as the new state
> DB_IN_END_OF_RECOVERY_CHECKPOINT introduced there says it all.
> 

AFAIU is one patch or the other but not both, isn't it?

This habit of putting two conflicting versions of patches on the same 
thread causes http://cfbot.cputube.org/ to fail.

Now; I do think that the secondd patch, the one that just skips update
of the state in control file, is the way to go. The other patch adds too
much complexity for a small return.

-- 
Jaime Casanova
Director de Servicios Profesionales
SystemGuards - Consultores de PostgreSQL



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