Re: Wait event that should be reported while waiting for WALarchiving to finish - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Fujii Masao
Subject Re: Wait event that should be reported while waiting for WALarchiving to finish
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Msg-id d9d85efa-f62e-400e-2edf-9e1b8c0df651@oss.nttdata.com
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In response to Re: Wait event that should be reported while waiting for WALarchiving to finish  (Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>)
Responses Re: Wait event that should be reported while waiting for WALarchiving to finish
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On 2020/02/17 18:48, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 04:30:00PM +0900, Fujii Masao wrote:
>> On 2020/02/14 23:43, Robert Haas wrote:
>>> On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 10:47 PM Fujii Masao
>>> <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com> wrote:
>>>> Fixed. Thanks for the review!
>>>
>>> I think it would be safer to just report the wait event during
>>> pg_usleep(1000000L) rather than putting those calls around the whole
>>> loop. It does not seem impossible that ereport() or
>>> CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() could do something that reports a wait event
>>> internally.
> 
> CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() would reset the event wait state.  Hm..  You
> may be right about the WARNING and it would be better to not rely on
> that.  Do you remember the states which may be triggered?
> 
>> OK, so I attached the updated version of the patch.
>> Thanks for the review!
> 
> Actually, I have some questions:
> 1) Should a new wait event be added in recoveryPausesHere()?  That
> would be IMO useful.

Yes, it's useful, I think. But it's better to implement that
as a separate patch.

> 2) Perhaps those two points should be replaced with WaitLatch(), where
> we would use the new wait events introduced?

For what? Maybe it should, but I'm not sure it's worth the trouble.

Regards,

-- 
Fujii Masao
NTT DATA CORPORATION
Advanced Platform Technology Group
Research and Development Headquarters



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