Re: Slave enters in recovery and promotes when WAL stream with master is cut + delay master/slave

On 2013-01-17 17:18:14 +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> On 17.01.2013 15:05, Andres Freund wrote:
> >On 2013-01-17 13:47:41 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> >>I think that bug has been introduced by commit 7fcbf6a.
> >>Before splitting xlog reading as a separate facility things worked
> >>correctly.
> >>There are also no delay problems before this commit.
> >
> >Ok, my inkling proved to be correct, its two related issues:
> >
> >a ) The error handling in XLogReadRecord is inconsistent, it doesn't
> >always reset the necessary things.
> >
> >b) ReadRecord: We cannot not break out of the retry loop in readRecord
> >just so, just removing the break seems correct.
> >
> >c) ReadRecord: (minor): We should log an error even if errormsg is not
> >set, otherwise we wont jump out far enough.
> >
> >I think at least a) and b) is the result of merges between development
> >of different people, sorry for that.
> 
> Got a patch?

Yes, I am just testing some scenarios with it, will send it after that.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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