Re: CheckpointLock needed in CreateCheckPoint()?

On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 1:22 PM Amul Sul <sulamul@gmail.com> wrote:
 > I am not sure I understood your point completely.  Do you mean there could be
> multiple bootstrap or standalone backends that could exist at a time and can
> perform checkpoint?

Actually, my understanding of the standalone backend was wrong
initially. Now, I'm clear with that.

> > I don't think we can completely get rid of CheckpointLock in
> > CreateCheckPoint given the fact that it can get called from multiple
> > processes.
> >
>
> How?

When the server is run in a standalone backend, it seems like there
can be only one process running in single user mode, as pointed by
Dilip upthread, so there will be no simultaneous calls to
CreateCheckPoint.

> > How about serving that ASRO barrier request alone for checkpointer
> > process in ProcessInterrupts even though the CheckpointLock is held by
> > the checkpointer process? And also while the checkpointing is
> > happening, may be we should call CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS to see if the
> > ASRO barrier has arrived. This may sound bit hacky, but just a
> > thought. I'm thinking that in ProcessInterrupts we can get to know the
> > checkpointer process type via MyAuxProcType, and whether the lock is
> > held or not using CheckpointLock, and then we can handle the ASRO
> > global barrier request.
> >
>
> I am afraid that this will easily get rejected by the community.  Note that this
> is a very crucial code path of the database server. There are other options
> too, but don't want to propose them until clarity on the CheckpointLock
> necessity.

I understand that.

I'm sorry, if I have sidetracked the main point here.

With Regards,
Bharath Rupireddy.
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