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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <[email protected]>
Cc: Aidan Van Dyk <[email protected]>
Cc: Simon Riggs <[email protected]>
Cc: Fujii Masao <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Make standby server continuously retry restoring the next WAL
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:08:24 -0500
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Heikki Linnakangas <[email protected]> writes:
> -1. it isn't necessary for PITR. It's a new requirement for
> standby_mode='on', unless we add the file size check into the backend. I
> think we should add the file size check to the backend instead and save
> admins the headache.

I think the file size check needs to be in the backend purely on safety
grounds.  Whether we make pg_standby useful for this context is a
different discussion.

			regards, tom lane



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