From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
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 16:58:57 -0400
Message-ID: <792.1217019537@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
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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.
regards, tom lane
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