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Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:01:18 -0400
From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
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To: Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>
CC: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCHES] odd output in restore mode
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Kevin Grittner wrote:
>>>> "Heikki Linnakangas" <heikki@enterprisedb.com> wrote: 
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>> We really need a more reliable way of detecting that a file has been
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>> fully copied. 
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> In our scripts we handle this by copying to a temp directory on the
> same mount point as the archive directory and doing a mv to the
> archive location when the copy is successfully completed.  I think
> that this even works on Windows.  Could that just be documented as a
> strong recommendation for the archive script?
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Needs testing at least. If it does in fact work then we can just adjust 
the docs and be done - or maybe provide a .bat file or perl script that 
would work as na archive_command on Windows.

cheers

andrew