From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>
Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Proposed doc-patch: Identifying the Current WAL file
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 11:44:56 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <200604141544.k3EFiuw20847@candle.pha.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <443E832D.30405@archonet.com>
Richard Huxton wrote:
> Reading Tom's posting here:
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2006-04/msg00499.php
>
> I just realised we don't seem to mention this in the docs anywhere. I
> propose adding a short paragraph to 23.3.1
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/backup-online.html#BACKUP-ONLINE-CAVEATS
>
> After "Except in the case of retrying a failure, it will be called only
> once for any given file name."
>
> To identify the current, partially-filled WAL segment, sort first by
> mtime and second by file name. That is, take the latest mtime among the
> properly-named files, breaking ties by taking the higher filename.
I am confused by this. Why do both mtime and file name need to be
checked?
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