pending patch: Re: Streaming replication and pg_xlogfile_name()

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> It's not clear what it should return, a TLI corresponding the filename
>>> of the WAL segment the record was replayed from, so that you can use
>>> pg_xlogfile_name() to find out the filename of the WAL segment being
>>> replayed, or the accurate TLI of the record being replayed. I'm leaning
>>> towards the latter, it feels more correct and accurate, but you could
>>> argue for the former too. In any case, it needs to be well-defined.
>>
>> I agree with you that the latter is more correct and accurate. The simple
>> fix is updating the lastPageTLI with the CheckPoint->ThisTimeLineID when
>> replaying the shutdown checkpoint record. Though we might need to use new
>> variable to keep the last applied timeline instead of the lastPageTLI.
>
> Here is the revised patch. I used new local variable instead of lastPageTLI
> to track the tli of last applied record. It is updated with the tli of the
> log page header when reading the page, and with the tli of the checkpoint
> record when replaying the checkpoint shutdown record that changes the tli.
> So pg_last_xlog_replay_location() can return the accurate tli of the last
> applied record.

I rebased the patch to HEAD. Should I think that the patch has been rejected
because it has remained pending for about one month?

Regards,

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Fujii Masao
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