wait for event(7)
NAME
WAIT FOR EVENT - Have Slonik script wait for previous event to complete
SYNOPSIS
WAIT FOR EVENT (options);
DESCRIPTION
Waits for event Confirmation.
Slonik remembers the last event generated on every node during script
execution (events generated by earlier calls are currently not
checked). In certain situations it is necessary that events generated
on one node (such as CREATE SET) are processed on another node before
issuing more commands (for instance, SUBSCRIBE SET(7)). WAIT FOR EVENT
may be used to cause the slonik script to wait until the subscriber
node is ready for the next action.
WAIT FOR EVENT must be called outside of any try block in order to
work, since new confirm messages don't become visible within a transaction.
- ORIGIN = ival | ALL
- The origin of the event(s) to wait for.
- CONFIRMED = ival | ALL
- The node ID of the receiver that must confirm the event(s).
- WAIT ON = ival
- The ID of the node where the "sl_confirm" [not available as a man page] table is to be checked. The default value is 1.
- TIMEOUT = ival
- The number of seconds to wait. Default is 600 (10 minutes). TIMEOUT = 0 causes the script to wait indefinitely.
EXAMPLE
- WAIT FOR EVENT (
- ORIGIN = ALL,
CONFIRMED = ALL,
WAIT ON = 1 - );
LOCKING BEHAVIOUR
No application-visible locking should take place.
VERSION INFORMATION
This command was introduced in Slony-I 1.0
ODDITIES
Not all events return interesting results. For instance, many people
have run afoul of problems with SUBSCRIBE SET(7), when subscribing a
new set. Be aware (and beware!) that a SUBSCRIBE SET(7) request will
return the event confirmation almost immediately, even though there
might be several hours of work to do before the subscription is ready.
The trouble with SUBSCRIBE SET(7) is that it is processed as two
events, one on the origin node, with a second event, to enable the subscription, on the subscriber.
- In order to more reliably monitor from within a slonik(1) script that
SUBSCRIBE SET(7) is complete, you may submit a SYNC(7) event after the
subscription, and have the WAIT request wait on that SYNC event, as
follows.
- # Assuming that set 1 has direct subscribers 2 and 3
SUBSCRIBE SET (ID = 999, PROVIDER = 1, RECEIVER = 2);
SYNC (ID=1);
WAIT FOR EVENT (ORIGIN = 1, CONFIRMED = 2, WAIT ON=1);
SUBSCRIBE SET (ID = 999, PROVIDER = 1, RECEIVER = 3);
SYNC (ID=1);
WAIT FOR EVENT (ORIGIN = 1, CONFIRMED = 3, WAIT ON=1);
MERGE SET ( ID = 1, ADD ID = 999, ORIGIN = 1 );