public inbox for [email protected]
help / color / mirror / Atom feedFrom: Heikki Linnakangas <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[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 14:50:34 +0200
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>
<[email protected]>
<1265893599.7341.1454.camel@ebony>
<[email protected]>
<[email protected]>
<[email protected]>
<[email protected]>
<[email protected]>
<[email protected]>
<[email protected]>
<[email protected]>
<1268988724.3556.3.camel@ebony>
<[email protected]>
<[email protected]>
Tom Lane wrote:
> 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.
Really? Not as far as I can see. Recovery has always tried to restore
WAL files from archive first, falling back to the copy in pg_xlog only
if restore_command returns failure.
--
Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
view thread (77+ messages) latest in thread
reply
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Reply to all the recipients using the --to and --cc options:
reply via email
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Make standby server continuously retry restoring the next WAL
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
This inbox is served by agora; see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox