Re: Is it correct to update db state in control file as "shutting down" during end-of-recovery checkpoint?

On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 07:20:05PM +0000, Bossart, Nathan wrote:
> I looked into removing the "shutdown" variable in favor of using
> "flags" everywhere, but the patch was quite messy and repetitive.  I
> think another way to make things less confusing is to replace
> "shutdown" with an inverse variable called "online."  The attached
> patch does it this way.

Yeah, that sounds like a good compromise.  At least, I find the whole
a bit easier to follow.

Heikki was planning to commit a large refactoring of xlog.c, so we'd
better wait for that to happen before concluding here.
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Michael