Re: Cascading replication and recovery_target_timeline='latest'

From: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)fr>
To: hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi
Cc: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Cascading replication and recovery_target_timeline='latest'
Date: 2012-09-04 10:02:55
Message-ID: m2r4qiw1f4.fsf@2ndQuadrant.fr
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Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi> writes:
> Hmm, I was thinking that when walsender gets the position it can send the
> WAL up to, in GetStandbyFlushRecPtr(), it could atomically check the current
> recovery timeline. If it has changed, refuse to send the new WAL and
> terminate. That would be a fairly small change, it would just close the
> window between requesting walsenders to terminate and them actually
> terminating.

It looks to me like a bug fix that also applies to non cascading
situation. Is that right?

Regards,
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Dimitri Fontaine
http://2ndQuadrant.fr PostgreSQL : Expertise, Formation et Support

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