Received: from malur.postgresql.org ([217.196.149.56]) by arkaria.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oLFkU-0005gp-JR for pgsql-hackers@arkaria.postgresql.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2022 03:17:42 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=malur.postgresql.org) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oLFkT-0005EG-75 for pgsql-hackers@arkaria.postgresql.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2022 03:17:41 +0000 Received: from makus.postgresql.org ([2001:4800:3e1:1::229]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oLFkS-0005Cf-Tv for pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2022 03:17:40 +0000 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us ([66.207.139.130]) by makus.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oLFkM-0007WV-JB for pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2022 03:17:39 +0000 Received: from sss1.sss.pgh.pa.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id 2793HUJr766119; Mon, 8 Aug 2022 23:17:30 -0400 From: Tom Lane To: Thomas Munro cc: Nathan Bossart , Bharath Rupireddy , Andres Freund , "Bossart, Nathan" , Julien Rouhaud , PostgreSQL Hackers Subject: Re: Avoid erroring out when unable to remove or parse logical rewrite files to save checkpoint work In-reply-to: References: <20220215181034.nyhd6fwzyg3vgxls@alap3.anarazel.de> <20220215183758.GA2435469@nathanxps13> <20220215231123.GA2584239@nathanxps13> <20220329224832.GA560657@nathanxps13> <20220330162008.GA784267@nathanxps13> <20220408201857.GA1586536@nathanxps13> <20220708171439.GB2356733@nathanxps13> <20220718181842.GB3642254@nathanxps13> Comments: In-reply-to Thomas Munro message dated "Tue, 09 Aug 2022 15:10:41 +1200" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <766117.1660015050.1@sss.pgh.pa.us> Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2022 23:17:30 -0400 Message-ID: <766118.1660015050@sss.pgh.pa.us> List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: Archived-At: Precedence: bulk Thomas Munro writes: > The only hunk I'm having second thoughts about is the following, which > makes unexpected stray files break checkpoints: Sounds like a pretty bad idea. What's the upside? regards, tom lane