Re: archive status ".ready" files may be created too early

On 2021-Aug-28, Andres Freund wrote:

> While rebasing the aio patchset ontop of HEAD I noticed that this commit added
> another atomic operation to XLogWrite() with archiving enabled. The WAL write
> path is really quite hot, and at least some of the
> NotifySegmentsReadyForArchive() calls are done while WALWriteLock is held.
> 
> I think we should at least try to make the fast-path where no segment
> boundaries were crossed use no atomic operations.

I think the best way to achieve this is is to rely completely on
walwriter doing the segment notification, so that the WAL write done by
backend would only do a latch set.

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