| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Rob Butler <crodster2k(at)yahoo(dot)com>, Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su>, Jeff Davis <jdavis-pgsql(at)empires(dot)org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Problem with PITR recovery |
| Date: | 2005-04-18 16:52:10 |
| Message-ID: | 200504181652.j3IGqAl24676@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > OK, I updated the two current TODO items:
> > * Automatically force archiving of partially-filled WAL files when
> > pg_stop_backup() is called or the server is stopped
>
> > Is this OK?
>
> Archive on stop is right out. The common reason for a stop is that the
> system is being shut down, and we don't have time to archive a WAL file
> before init will kill -9 us.
Ah, good point. Can we do it for 'smart' shutdown mode, which is the
default? I see server stop scripts using 'fast' where we would not do
the WAL archive.
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