Re: prevent immature WAL streaming

On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 11:04 PM Kyotaro Horiguchi
<horikyota.ntt@gmail.com> wrote:
> At Mon, 23 Aug 2021 18:52:17 -0400, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote in
> > I'd also like to have tests.  That seems moderately hard, but if we had
> > WAL-molasses that could be used in walreceiver, it could be done. (It
> > sounds easier to write tests with a molasses-archive_command.)
> >
> >
> > [1] https://postgr.es/m/CBDDFA01-6E40-46BB-9F98-9340F4379505@amazon.com
> > [2] https://postgr.es/m/3f9c466d-d143-472c-a961-66406172af96.mengjuan.cmj@alibaba-inc.com
>
> (I'm not sure what "WAL-molasses" above expresses, same as "sugar"?)

I think, but am not 100% sure, that "molasses" here is being used to
refer to fault injection.

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