Re: [BUG] non archived WAL removed during production crash recovery

On Wed, 8 Apr 2020 11:23:45 +0900
Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 07, 2020 at 05:17:36PM +0200, Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais wrote:
> > I'm not sure who would need this information before the WAL machinery is up,
> > but is it safe enough in your opinion for futur usage of
> > GetRecoveryState()? Do you think this information might be useful before
> > the WAL machinery is set? Current "user" (eg. restoreTwoPhaseData()) only
> > need to know if we are in recovery, whatever the reason.  
> 
> (I had this thread marked as something to look at, but could not.
> Sorry for the delay).

(no worries :))

> >  src/test/recovery/t/011_crash_recovery.pl | 16 ++++++++++++++--
> >  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/src/test/recovery/t/011_crash_recovery.pl
> > b/src/test/recovery/t/011_crash_recovery.pl index ca6e92b50d..ce2e899891
> > 100644 --- a/src/test/recovery/t/011_crash_recovery.pl
> > +++ b/src/test/recovery/t/011_crash_recovery.pl
> > @@ -15,11 +15,17 @@ if ($Config{osname} eq 'MSWin32')  
> 
> May I ask why this new test is added to 011_crash_recovery.pl which is
> aimed at testing crash and redo, while we have 002_archiving.pl that
> is dedicated to archiving in a more general manner?

I thought it was a better place because the test happen during crash recovery.

In the meantime, while working on other tests related to $SUBJECT and the
current consensus, I was wondering if a new file would be a better place anyway.