Refactor WaitForLSNReplay() to return the result of waiting

Currently, WaitForLSNReplay() immediately throws an error if waiting for LSN
replay is not successful.  This commit teaches  WaitForLSNReplay() to return
the result of waiting, while making pg_wal_replay_wait() responsible for
throwing an appropriate error.

This is preparation to adding 'no_error' argument to pg_wal_replay_wait() and
new function pg_wal_replay_wait_status(), which returns the last wait result
status.

Additionally, we stop distinguishing situations when we find our instance to
be not in a recovery state before entering the waiting loop and inside
the waiting loop.  Standby promotion may happen at any moment, even between
issuing a procedure call statement and pg_wal_replay_wait() doing a first
check of recovery status.  Thus, there is no pointing distinguishing these
situations.

Also, since we may exit the waiting loop and see our instance not in recovery
without throwing an error, we need to deleteLSNWaiter() in that case. We do
this unconditionally for the sake of simplicity, even if standby was already
promoted after reaching the target LSN, the startup process surely already
deleted us.

Reported-by: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZtUF17gF0pNpwZDI%40paquier.xyz
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Pavel Borisov

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 22 deletions

diff --git a/src/backend/access/transam/xlogwait.c b/src/backend/access/transam/xlogwait.c
index 353b7854dc8..58fb10aa5a8 100644
--- a/src/backend/access/transam/xlogwait.c
+++ b/src/backend/access/transam/xlogwait.c
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ WaitLSNCleanup(void)
  * Wait using MyLatch till the given LSN is replayed, the postmaster dies or
  * timeout happens.
  */
-void
+WaitLSNResult
 WaitForLSNReplay(XLogRecPtr targetLSN, int64 timeout)
 {
 	XLogRecPtr	currentLSN;
@@ -240,17 +240,14 @@ WaitForLSNReplay(XLogRecPtr targetLSN, int64 timeout)
 		 * check the last replay LSN before reporting an error.
 		 */
 		if (targetLSN <= GetXLogReplayRecPtr(NULL))
-			return;
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_OBJECT_NOT_IN_PREREQUISITE_STATE),
-				 errmsg("recovery is not in progress"),
-				 errhint("Waiting for LSN can only be executed during recovery.")));
+			return WAIT_LSN_RESULT_SUCCESS;
+		return WAIT_LSN_RESULT_NOT_IN_RECOVERY;
 	}
 	else
 	{
 		/* If target LSN is already replayed, exit immediately */
 		if (targetLSN <= GetXLogReplayRecPtr(NULL))
-			return;
+			return WAIT_LSN_RESULT_SUCCESS;
 	}
 
 	if (timeout > 0)
@@ -276,17 +273,13 @@ WaitForLSNReplay(XLogRecPtr targetLSN, int64 timeout)
 		{
 			/*
 			 * Recovery was ended, but recheck if target LSN was already
-			 * replayed.
+			 * replayed.  See the comment regarding deleteLSNWaiter() below.
 			 */
+			deleteLSNWaiter();
 			currentLSN = GetXLogReplayRecPtr(NULL);
 			if (targetLSN <= currentLSN)
-				return;
-			ereport(ERROR,
-					(errcode(ERRCODE_OBJECT_NOT_IN_PREREQUISITE_STATE),
-					 errmsg("recovery is not in progress"),
-					 errdetail("Recovery ended before replaying target LSN %X/%X; last replay LSN %X/%X.",
-							   LSN_FORMAT_ARGS(targetLSN),
-							   LSN_FORMAT_ARGS(currentLSN))));
+				return WAIT_LSN_RESULT_SUCCESS;
+			return WAIT_LSN_RESULT_NOT_IN_RECOVERY;
 		}
 		else
 		{
@@ -338,11 +331,7 @@ WaitForLSNReplay(XLogRecPtr targetLSN, int64 timeout)
 	 * If we didn't reach the target LSN, we must be exited by timeout.
 	 */
 	if (targetLSN > currentLSN)
-	{
-		ereport(ERROR,
-				(errcode(ERRCODE_QUERY_CANCELED),
-				 errmsg("timed out while waiting for target LSN %X/%X to be replayed; current replay LSN %X/%X",
-						LSN_FORMAT_ARGS(targetLSN),
-						LSN_FORMAT_ARGS(currentLSN))));
-	}
+		return WAIT_LSN_RESULT_TIMEOUT;
+
+	return WAIT_LSN_RESULT_SUCCESS;
 }