On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 4:15 PM, Melanie Plageman <melanieplage...@gmail.com > wrote: > > The latest patch applies cleanly and builds (I am also seeing the failing > TAP tests), however, I have a concern. With a single server set up, when I > attempt to make a connection with target_session_attrs=read-write, I get > the message > psql: could not make a suitable connection to server "localhost:5432" > Whereas, when I attempt to make a connection with > target_session_attrs=read-only, it is successful. > > I might be missing something, but this seems somewhat counter-intuitive. I > would expect to specify read-write as target_session_attrs and successfully > connect to a server on which read and write operations are permitted. I see > this behavior implemented in src/interfaces/libpq/fe-connect.c > Is there a reason to reject a connection to a primary server when I > specify 'read-write'? Is this intentional? > > Hi Elvis,
Making an assumption about the intended functionality mentioned above, I swapped the 'not' to the following lines of src/interfaces/libpq/fe-connect.c ~ line 3005 if (conn->target_session_attrs != NULL && ((strcmp(conn->target_session_attrs, "read-write") == 0 && conn->session_read_only) || (strcmp(conn->target_session_attrs, "read-only") == 0 && *!* conn->session_read_only))) I rebased and built with this change locally. The review below is based on the patch with that change. Also, the following comment has what looks like a copy-paste error and the first line should be deleted in src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c ~ line 10078 assign_default_transaction_read_only +assign_default_transaction_read_only(bool newval, void *extra) ... + /* - * We clamp manually-set values to at least 1MB. Since + * Also set the session read-only parameter. We only need + * to set the correct value in processes that have database + * sessions, but there's no mechanism to know that there's patch applies cleanly: yes installcheck: passed installcheck-world: passed feature works as expected: yes (details follow) With two servers, one configured as the primary and one configured to run in Hot Standby mode, I was able to observe that the value of session_read_only changed after triggering failover once the standby server exited recovery When attempting to connect to a primary server with target_session_attrs=read-write, I was successful and when attempting to connect with target_session_attrs=read-only, the connection was closed and the expected message was produced Thanks!
