On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 2:16 PM Amul Sul <sulamul@gmail.com> wrote:
> I get why you think that, I wasn't very precise in briefing the problem.
>
> Any new backend that gets connected right after the shared memory
> state changes to WALPROHIBIT_STATE_GOING_READ_WRITE will be by
> default allowed to do the WAL writes. Such backends can perform write
> operation before the checkpointer does the XLogAcceptWrites().
Okay, make sense now. But my next question is why do we allow backends
to write WAL in WALPROHIBIT_STATE_GOING_READ_WRITE state? why don't we
wait until the shared memory state is changed to
WALPROHIBIT_STATE_READ_WRITE?
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