From: | Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
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To: | Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: ACK from walreceiver to walsender |
Date: | 2010-01-08 13:35:18 |
Message-ID: | 4B473496.9080201@enterprisedb.com |
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Fujii Masao wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
> <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>> There's no guarantee walreceiver will read the 'X' before trying to
>> write() to the socket, so we can't rely on that to determine whether to
>> suppress the "could not send data to client" message.
>
> s/walreceiver/walsender?
Right.
>> We could try to read() from the socket after the write() has failed, to
>> see if there's an 'X' message pending. Not sure it's worth it. I think
>> we would have to put the socket into non-blocking mode before the
>> read(), to avoid blocking if the write() failed for some other reason.
>> Or select() to see if there's incoming data. I'm inclined to just not
>> bother..
>
> Umm.. if no action is taken, walsender process would remain until
> it tries to write to the socket in that case. Is this OK?
Oh, I think we need to fix that, I'm thinking of doing a select() in the
loop to check that the socket hasn't been closed yet. I meant we don't
need to try reading the 'X' to tell apart e.g a network problem from a
standby that's shut down cleanly.
--
Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
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