From: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Martin Zaun <Martin.Zaun@Sun.COM>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>
Cc: List pgsql-patches <pgsql-patches@postgresql.org>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] odd output in restore mode
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:25:01 +0100
Message-ID: <1217021101.3894.1025.camel@ebony.2ndQuadrant> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <792.1217019537@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 16:58 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 16:31 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> I thought the latest conclusion was that changing the behavior of
> >> pg_standby itself wouldn't address the problem anyway, and that what we
> >> need is just a docs patch recommending that people use safe copying
> >> methods in their scripts that copy to the archive area?
>
> > Plus the rest of this patch, which is really very simple.
>
> Why? AFAICT the patch is just a kluge that adds user-visible complexity
> without providing a solution that's actually sure to work.
First, I'm not the one objecting to the current behaviour.
Currently, there is a wait in there that can be removed if you use a
copy utility that sets size after it does a copy. So we agreed to make
it optional (at PGCon).
--
Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com
PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support
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Subject: Re: [PATCHES] odd output in restore mode
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