Re: Synchronous replication

From: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Yeb Havinga <yebhavinga(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Synchronous replication
Date: 2010-08-05 10:40:32
Message-ID: AANLkTi=-x0C0=1a9gnwzLT=nAtftTnQ+FXuNuP8CUbms@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 12:35 AM, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
> There's some race conditions with the signaling. If another process finishes
> XLOG flush and sends the signal when a walsender has just finished one
> iteration of its main loop, walsender will reset xlogsend_requested and go
> to sleep. It should not sleep but send the pending WAL immediately.

Yep. To avoid that race condition, xlogsend_requested should be reset to
false after sleep and before calling XLogSend(). I attached the updated
version of the patch.

Of course, the code is also available in my git repository:
git://git.postgresql.org/git/users/fujii/postgres.git
branch: wakeup-walsnd

Regards,

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Fujii Masao
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
NTT Open Source Software Center

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change_poll_loop_in_walsender_0805.patch application/octet-stream 8.1 KB

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