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Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:43:53 -0400
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Subject: Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Make standby server
	continuously retry restoring the next WAL
From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>,
	Aidan Van Dyk <aidan@highrise.ca>,
	PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
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On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> * If a corrupt WAL record is found in archive or streamed from master in
> standby mode, throw WARNING instead of PANIC, and keep trying. In
> archive recovery (ie. standby_mode=off) it's still a PANIC. We can make
> it a WARNING too, which gives the pre-9.0 behavior of starting up the
> server on corruption. I prefer PANIC but the discussion is still going on.

I don't think we should be changing pre-9.0 behavior more than necessary.

...Robert