Re: Network failure may prevent promotion

At Mon, 22 Jan 2024 13:29:10 -0800, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote in 
> Hi,
> 
> On 2024-01-19 12:28:05 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 03:42:28PM +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> > > Given that commit 728f86fec6 that introduced this issue was not strictly
> > > required, perhaps we should just revert it for v16.
> > 
> > Is there a point in keeping 728f86fec6 as well on HEAD?  That does not
> > strike me as wise to keep that in the tree for now.  If it needs to be
> > reworked, looking at this problem from scratch would be a safer
> > approach.
> 
> IDK, I think we'll introduce this type of bug over and over if we don't fix it
> properly.

Just to clarify my position, I thought that 728f86fec6 was heading the
right direction. Considering the current approach to signal handling
in walreceiver, I believed that it would be better to further
generalize in this direction rather than reverting. That's why I
proposed that patch.

regards.

-- 
Kyotaro Horiguchi
NTT Open Source Software Center