On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 09:46:26AM +0900, Fujii Masao wrote: > I found small issue in pg_promote(). If postmaster dies > while pg_promote() is waiting for the standby promotion to finish, > pg_promote() can cause busy loop. This happens because > pg_promote() does nothing when WaitLatch() detects > the postmaster death event. I think that pg_promote() > should bail out of the loop immediately in that case. > > Attached is the patch for the fix.
Indeed, this is not correct.
- ereport(WARNING,
- (errmsg("server did not promote within %d seconds",
- wait_seconds)));
+ if (i >= WAITS_PER_SECOND * wait_seconds)
+ ereport(WARNING,
+ (errmsg("server did not promote within %d seconds",
wait_seconds)));
Would it make more sense to issue a warning mentioning the postmaster
death and then return PG_RETURN_BOOL(false) instead of breaking out of
the loop? It could be confusing to warn about a timeout if the
postmaster died in parallel, and we know the actual reason why the
promotion did not happen in this case.
--
Michael
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