Re: [HACKERS] Race conditions with WAL sender PID lookups

On 2017-06-07 20:31, Robert Haas wrote:

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> [ Side note: Erik's report on this thread initially seemed to suggest
> that we needed this patch to make logical decoding stable.  But my
> impression is that this is belied by subsequent developments on other
> threads, so my theory is that this patch was never really related to
> the problem, but rather than by the time Erik got around to testing
> this patch, other fixes had made the problems relatively rare, and the
> apparently-improved results with this patch were just chance.  If that
> theory is wrong, it would be good to hear about it. ]

Yes, agreed; I was probably mistaken.