On 06/09/16 07:18, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote:
One open issue is the various assign_recovery_target_xxx functions,
which Michael noted in his earlier review:
+static void
+assign_recovery_target_xid(const char *newval, void *extra)
+{
+ recovery_target_xid = *((TransactionId *) extra);
+
+ if (recovery_target_xid != InvalidTransactionId)
+ recovery_target = RECOVERY_TARGET_XID;
+ else if (recovery_target_name && *recovery_target_name)
+ recovery_target = RECOVERY_TARGET_NAME;
+ else if (recovery_target_time != 0)
+ recovery_target = RECOVERY_TARGET_TIME;
+ else if (recovery_target_lsn != 0)
+ recovery_target = RECOVERY_TARGET_LSN;
+ else
+ recovery_target = RECOVERY_TARGET_UNSET;
+}
(Note how recovery_target_lsn caused this—and three other functions
besides—to grow an extra branch.)
I don't like this code, but I'm not yet sure what to replace it with. I
think we should address the underlying problem—that the UI doesn't map
cleanly to what the code wants. There's been some discussion about this
earlier, but not any consensus that I could see.
Do we want something like this (easy to implement and document, perhaps
not especially convenient to use):
recovery_target = 'xid' # or 'time'/'name'/'lsn'/'immediate'
recovery_target_xid = xxx? # the only setting we care about now
recovery_target_otherthings = parsed_but_ignored
Or something like this (a bit harder to implement):
recovery_target = 'xid:xxx' # or 'time:xxx' etc.
Personally, I never liked the fact that we have several config variables
for this and then the last one is chosen (even when it was in
recovery.conf). We support one recovery_target at a time so it would
make sense to have single config option for it IMHO.
So +1 on the recovery_target = 'xid:xxx' idea.
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