Re: don't allow walsender to consume superuser_reserved_connection slots, or during shutdown - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: don't allow walsender to consume superuser_reserved_connection slots, or during shutdown
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Msg-id h2x603c8f071004260354s1dfac4aeq79b990eebab67ca8@mail.gmail.com
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In response to don't allow walsender to consume superuser_reserved_connection slots, or during shutdown  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>>> ...shouldn't we move the "tests", plural, rather than just the one?
>>> It seems right to reject new SR connections during shutdown.
>>
>> Yeah; you'd also need to adjust both of them to consider am_walsender.
>> (IOW, we want to treat SR connections as non-superuser for both tests.)
>
> [ subject changed, recipient list trimmed ]
>
> Here's the fine patch.  The actual code changes are simple and seem to
> work as expected, but I struggled a bit with the phrasing of the
> messages.  Feel free to suggest improvements.  Also, I wasn't sure if
> there was somewhere in the documentation where we discussed the
> restriction that only superusers can connect during shutdown.  If
> there is such a place, we should update that, too.

I have committed this as-is.  We can further change the error messages
if we like, but there didn't seem to be a clear consensus on any
particular change from what I have here.

...Robert


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