Re: [PATCH] Accept connections post recovery without waiting for RemoveOldXlogFiles

On Mon, Sep 8, 2025 at 6:33 PM Nitin Motiani <nitinmotiani@google.com> wrote:
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> Hi Hackers,
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> I'd like to propose a patch to allow accepting connections post recovery without waiting for the removal of old xlog
files.

As another idea, could crash recovery avoid waiting for the end-of-recovery
checkpoint itself to finish, similar to archive recovery? In other words,
crash recovery would write the end-of-recovery WAL record and request
a checkpoint, but not block until it completes. Thought?

One concern, though: in your case, the first checkpoint after crash recovery
could take a very long time, since it needs to remove a large number of
WAL files. This could delay subsequent checkpoints beyond checkpoint_timeout.
If so, perhaps we'd need to limit how many WAL files a single checkpoint
can remove.

Regards,

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Fujii Masao