Re: [Fwd: [PATCHES] archiver ps display]

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [Fwd: [PATCHES] archiver ps display]
Date: 2007-12-13 15:12:31
Message-ID: 1197558751.4255.1812.camel@ebony.site
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On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 15:58 +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 13. Dezember 2007 schrieb Simon Riggs:
> > Now that we have set archiver messages to DEBUG levels, there's no easy
> > way of seeing what file we are currently working on.
>
> > After archive_command
> > postgres: archiver process archived 00000001000000000000000B
>
> ps isn't a very robust and portable way to monitor something so important.
> Anything that is interesting should also be visible in some other, more
> well-defined way, such as an SQL function or table.

Yeh, agreed, there are external ways of checking what's going on.

I really meant for people to eyeball it. Since we do it for recovery, it
seems sensible to do the same thing for archiving.

--
Simon Riggs
2ndQuadrant http://www.2ndQuadrant.com

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