Re: Exit walsender before confirming remote flush in logical replication

On Tue, Feb 7, 2023 at 2:04 AM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
>
> On 2023-02-06 12:23:54 +0530, Amit Kapila wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 6, 2023 at 10:33 AM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> > > Smart shutdown is practically unusable. I don't think it makes sense to tie behavior of walsender to it in any
way.
> > >
> >
> > So, we have the following options: (a) do nothing for this; (b)
> > clarify the current behavior in docs. Any suggestions?
>
> b) seems good.
>
> I also think it'd make sense to improve this on a code-level. Just not in the
> wholesale way discussed so far.
>
> How about we make it an option in START_REPLICATION? Delayed logical rep can
> toggle that on by default.
>

Works for me. So, when this option is set in START_REPLICATION
message, walsender will set some flag and allow itself to exit at
shutdown without waiting for WAL to be sent?

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With Regards,
Amit Kapila.