On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 9:30 PM, Michael Paquier
<michael.paqu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 8:59 PM, Fujii Masao <masao.fu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> (2)
>> +retry:
>> + SpinLockAcquire(&walrcv->mutex);
>> + if (!walrcv->ready_to_display)
>> + {
>> + SpinLockRelease(&walrcv->mutex);
>> + CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS();
>> + pg_usleep(1000);
>> + goto retry;
>> + }
>> + SpinLockRelease(&walrcv->mutex);
>>
>> ISTM that we will never be able to get out of this loop if walreceiver
>> fails to connect to the master (e.g., password is wrong) after we enter
>> this loop.
>
> Wouldn't it be cleaner to just return an error here instead of retrying?
I prefer to return NULL. Now NULL is returned when walreceiver's pid is 0.
We can just change this logic so that NULL is returned pid is 0 OR the
flag is false.
Regards,
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Fujii Masao
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