Re: Wait event that should be reported while waiting for WALarchiving to finish

On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 02:29:20AM +0900, Fujii Masao wrote:
> When I saw pg_stat_activity.wait_event while pg_basebackup -X none
> is waiting for WAL archiving to finish, it was either NULL or
> CheckpointDone. I think this is confusing. What about introducing
> new wait_event like WAIT_EVENT_BACKUP_WAIT_WAL_ARCHIVE
> (BackupWaitWalArchive) and reporting it during that period?

Sounds like a good idea to me.  You need to be careful that this does
not overwrite more low-level wait event registration though, so that
could be more tricky than it looks at first sight.
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Michael