Re: BUG: *FF WALs under 9.2 (WAS: .ready files appearing on slaves)

From: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>
Cc: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais <jgdr(at)dalibo(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: BUG: *FF WALs under 9.2 (WAS: .ready files appearing on slaves)
Date: 2014-10-23 13:16:29
Message-ID: CAB7nPqQR9WxafiLtwDvcF_mXA+PSOP=2t1PsjMx87PWCxHNKPg@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com
> wrote:

> On 10/23/2014 01:25 PM, Michael Paquier wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Heikki Linnakangas <
>> hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>> On 10/23/2014 08:59 AM, Fujii Masao wrote:
>>> Sounds reasonable, for back-branches. Although I'm still worried we might
>>> miss some corner-case unless we go with a more wholesale solution.
>>>
>>>
>> Don't really want to be the intruder here, but isn't that the simple patch
>> attached?
>>
>
> That's not right. Should check *after* the write if the segment was
> completed, and close it if so. Like the attached.
>
> There is still a small window between XLogWalRcvFlush and
>> XLogArchiveForceDone in XLogWalRcvWrite if the standby crashes exactly
>> between them.
>>
>
> Yeah. I think we can live with that.
>
Just tested this patch with the combo pg_switch_xlog() + stop/immediate and
the apparition of the .ready files is not fixed.
Regards,
--
Michael

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