Received: from maia.hub.org (unknown [200.46.208.211]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B2786330DF for ; Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:23:11 -0400 (AST) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.211]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 41218-07 for ; Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:22:52 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from exprod7og101.obsmtp.com (exprod7og101.obsmtp.com [64.18.2.155]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 42E5463224F for ; Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:23:00 -0400 (AST) Received: from source ([209.85.219.225]) by exprod7ob101.postini.com ([64.18.6.12]) with SMTP ID DSNKS3QSwrxIjrBIYC/RDkSKCPZvFJpl3QD/@postini.com; Thu, 11 Feb 2010 06:22:59 PST Received: by ewy25 with SMTP id 25so63577ewy.3 for ; Thu, 11 Feb 2010 06:22:57 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.213.24.17 with SMTP id t17mr1604115ebb.19.1265898176895; Thu, 11 Feb 2010 06:22:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.117? ([88.195.103.165]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 7sm5623686eyb.26.2010.02.11.06.22.54 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 11 Feb 2010 06:22:55 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B7412BE.5030605@enterprisedb.com> Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:22:54 +0200 From: Heikki Linnakangas Organization: EnterpriseDB User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090706) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Simon Riggs CC: Dimitri Fontaine , Fujii Masao , PostgreSQL-development Subject: Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Make standby server continuously retry restoring the next WAL References: <20100127152751.3B2047541B9@cvs.postgresql.org> <3f0b79eb1002092105r21e009d3v468496058ba04392@mail.gmail.com> <4B726120.80007@enterprisedb.com> <1265884657.7341.1192.camel@ebony> <4B73F678.8070109@enterprisedb.com> <1265891248.7341.1346.camel@ebony> <4B73FB99.4080403@enterprisedb.com> <1265893599.7341.1454.camel@ebony> <877hqjc2kk.fsf@hi-media-techno.com> <1265896250.7341.1627.camel@ebony> <4B740C6C.3010607@enterprisedb.com> <1265897834.7341.1714.camel@ebony> In-Reply-To: <1265897834.7341.1714.camel@ebony> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.397 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=AWL=0.202, BAYES_00=-2.599 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201002/861 X-Sequence-Number: 157204 Simon Riggs wrote: > Might it not be simpler to add a parameter onto pg_standby? > We send %s to tell pg_standby the standby_mode of the server which is > calling it so it can decide how to act in each case. That would work too, but it doesn't seem any simpler to me. On the contrary. -- Heikki Linnakangas EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com