Re: pg_standby and build farm

I'd love to see your program. Could you please submit to -pacthes?
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Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan

> I've written up a Warm Standby script as a .c program rather than
> scripts, to allow it to be portable and potentially shipped as part of
> PostgreSQL core.
>
> pg_standby is designed to be a wait-for restore_command, required to
> turn a normal archive recovery into a Warm Standby. Within the
> restore_command of the recovery.conf you could configure pg_standby in
> the following way:
>
> restore_command = 'pg_standby archiveDir %f %p'
>
> It has a number of other useful options and works with Win32 also.
>
> So far I've written this as a contrib module. Would people like to see
> this submitted to -patches, or should I make it available via PgFoundry
> HAPITR?
>
> Should this be reworked as an src/bin program? Or is the contrib module
> the best form for this in 8.3?
>
> I've also written a test program that uses this. I'm using this on a
> server at EDB to run a continuous Warm Standby test.
>
> Would anybody consider this test script worth including somewhere in
> core? and/or: Might it become part of the build farm?
>
> --
> Simon Riggs
> EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
>
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