On Mon, Aug 17, 2026 at 6:23 PM Alexander Korotkov <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Aug 15, 2026 at 6:11 PM Xuneng Zhou <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, Aug 15, 2026 at 11:01 AM Xuneng Zhou <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sat, Aug 15, 2026 at 8:01 AM Alexander Korotkov <[email protected]> 
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > The patchset looks good to me.  I made some minor corrections.
> > > >
> > > > 0003 Removed extra check in WaitLSNCleanup() as deleteLSNWaiter()
> > > > already does it.
> > > > 0005 Improved comment about the situation on when LSN can go backwards.
> > >
> > > Thanks for the corrections! LGTM.
> >
> > + * This cannot spin.  Once we are back in the heap, targetLSN is above
> > + * the position we just read, so a waker can only remove us again
> > + * after the position genuinely reaches the target, and then the check
> > + * above ends the loop.  The timeout and interrupt checks below are
> > + * thus deferred by at most one iteration.
> >
> > After thinking more about this, it seems that repeated stale wakeups
> > could turn this into spinning theoretically. I am not sure about the
> > possibility of this in practice. But for cautiousness, does it make
> > sense to reorder the re-registration and the timeout/interrupt
> > checking?
>
> Yes, this makes sense.  I also think it's better to calculate delay_ms
> just before WaitLatch().

Making sense to me.

> > > For patch 0005, I was initially
> > > hesitant to add a new test module because it may seem somewhat heavy
> > > just to test this issue. I ended up adding it after realizing that it
> > > could also be reused to test another, as-yet-unreported issue.
> > >
> > > I'm still wondering when it is appropriate to introduce a new test
> > > module like this. I'm also not quite sure when a TAP test is warranted
> > > instead of just providing a reproducer, since I spent a lot of time
> > > designing this test. I'd like to hear your thoughts on them.
>
> I think it's OK to introduce modules when test scenario can't be
> reliably reached just with SQL queries.  So, it must be eligible for
> this case.

Thanks.

> > > BTW, there are a few potential issues I've been investigating for a
> > > while, but the fixes and constraints are still not entirely clear to
> > > me, so I plan to send an off-list email about them later.
>
> Sure, share what you have in mind off-list or on-list at your preferrence.

OK, I'll share them soon.

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Regards,
Xuneng Zhou
HighGo Software Co., Ltd.


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