Fujii Masao wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 9:30 PM, Michael Paquier
> <michael.paquier@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 8:59 PM, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> ISTM that we will never be able to get out of this loop if walreceiver
> >> fails to connect to the master (e.g., password is wrong) after we enter
> >> this loop.
> >
> > Wouldn't it be cleaner to just return an error here instead of retrying?
>
> I prefer to return NULL. Now NULL is returned when walreceiver's pid is 0.
> We can just change this logic so that NULL is returned pid is 0 OR the
> flag is false.
For the conninfo only, or for everything?
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