Re: Recovery bug

From: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Recovery bug
Date: 2010-11-11 17:10:14
Message-ID: 1289495414.18031.1.camel@jdavis
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On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 18:20 +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> On 11.11.2010 02:20, Jeff Davis wrote:
> > There is a problem with this patch. ReadRecord() not only modifies
> > global variables, it also modifies the location pointed to by "record",
> > which is later used to set "wasShutdown". How about if we only set
> > "wasShutdown" if there is no backup_label (because the checkpoint for
> > pg_start_backup() will never be a shutdown checkpoint anyway)?
>
> Oh, good catch.
>
> > Trivial patch attached.
>
> Hmm, you're assuming that the checkpoint specified in the backup label
> is never a shutdown checkpoint. I guess that's true, but I'd rather do
> this (patch attached).
>

Looks good to me. Thanks!

> (StartupXLOG is quite a mess...)

Agreed.

Regards,
Jeff Davis

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