On Thu, 06 May 2021 at 17:30, Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 6, 2021 at 7:18 PM Japin Li <japinli@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 06 May 2021 at 17:08, Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Wed, May 5, 2021 at 12:35 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com> writes:
>> >> > This patch replaces the global "wrconn" in AlterSubscription_refresh with a local variable of the same name,
makingit consistent with other functions in subscriptioncmds.c (e.g. DropSubscription).
>> >> > The global wrconn is only meant to be used for logical apply/tablesync worker.
>> >> > Using the global/incorrect wrconn in AlterSubscription_refresh doesn't normally cause any problems, but harm is
stillposslble if the apply worker ever manages to do a subscription refresh. e.g. see [1]
>> >>
>> >> Hm. I would actually place the blame for this on whoever thought
>> >> it was okay to name a global variable something as generic as
>> >> "wrconn". Let's rename that while we're at it, say to something
>> >> like "tablesync_wrconn" (feel free to bikeshed).
>> >
>> > PSA v3 of the patch. Same as before, but now also renames the global
>> > variable from "wrconn" to "lrep_worker_wrconn".
>> >
>>
>> Thanks for updating patch. I'm confused why we move the walrcv_connect() out of
>> PG_TRY() block?
>> + /* Try to connect to the publisher. */
>> + wrconn = walrcv_connect(sub->conninfo, true, sub->name, &err);
>> + if (!wrconn)
>> + ereport(ERROR,
>> + (errmsg("could not connect to the publisher: %s", err)));
>> +
>> PG_TRY();
>> {
>> - /* Try to connect to the publisher. */
>> - wrconn = walrcv_connect(sub->conninfo, true, sub->name, &err);
>> - if (!wrconn)
>> - ereport(ERROR,
>> - (errmsg("could not connect to the publisher: %s", err)));
>> -
>> /* Get the table list from publisher. */
>> pubrel_names = fetch_table_list(wrconn, sub->publications);
>
> Thanks for your review. Reason for moving that out of the PG_TRY are:
>
> a) It makes code now consistent with other functions using wrconn. See
> CreateSubscription, DropSubscription etc
>
> b) It means don't need the wrconn NULL check anymore in the PG_FINALLY
> so it simplifies the disconnect.
>
Thanks for your explanation!
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