Re: missing history file

On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 10:52 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Simon Riggs" <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > Just ignore 00000001. Recovery will work fine even if absent. Don't
> > ignore all history files though, just that one. Hmmm, come to think of
> > it, why is it requesting it at all? We should just skip that request.
>
> No, because then people would misdesign their recovery scripts to not
> be able to deal with not finding a history file. As things are, they
> will certainly be exposed to that case in any testing they do. If we
> optimize this call away, then they won't see the case until they're in
> very deep doo-doo.

Main reason for suggesting this is that there is already code to
optimize the call away in one place, but not in another, which seems
strange either way.

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Simon Riggs
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