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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <[email protected]>
Cc: Simon Riggs <[email protected]>
Cc: Fujii Masao <[email protected]>
Cc: Aidan Van Dyk <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Make standby server continuously retry restoring the next WAL
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:43:34 -0400
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Heikki Linnakangas <[email protected]> writes:
> Simon Riggs wrote:
>> We might also have written half a file many times. The files in pg_xlog
>> are suspect whereas the files in the archive are not. If we have both we
>> should prefer the archive.

> Yep.

Really?  That will result in a change in the longstanding behavior of
ordinary recovery.  I'm unconvinced that this is wise.

			regards, tom lane



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