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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <[email protected]>
Cc: Fujii Masao <[email protected]>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: Randy Isbell <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: BUG #4566: pg_stop_backup() reports incorrect STOP WAL LOCATION
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:15:41 -0500
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Heikki Linnakangas <[email protected]> writes:
> Fujii Masao wrote:
>> Only a part of backup
>> history file (the file name including stop wal location) is changed.
>> Currently, the file name is wrong if stop wal location indicates a boundary
>> byte. This would confuse the user, I think.

> Should we change it in HEAD? I'm leaning towards no, on the grounds that 
> tools/people would then have to know the version it's dealing with to 
> interpret the value correctly, and because pg_stop_backup() now waits 
> for the last xlog file to be archived before returning, there's little 
> need to look at that file.

I agree.  It might have been better to define it the other way
originally, but the risks of changing it now outweigh any likely
benefit.

			regards, tom lane



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