Re: Streaming replication and postmaster signaling

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Streaming replication and postmaster signaling
Date: 2010-01-05 14:29:54
Message-ID: 20100105142953.GE3660@alvh.no-ip.org
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Heikki Linnakangas escribió:
> Looking at the latest streaming replication patch, I don't much like the
> signaling between WAL sender and postmaster. It seems complicated, and
> as a rule of thumb postmaster shouldn't be accessing shared memory. The
> current signaling is:
>
> 1. A new connection arrives. A new backend process is forked forked like
> for a normal connection.

This was probably discussed to death earlier, but: why was it decided to
not simply use a different port for listening for walsender
connections?

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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