Re: reaper should restart archiver even on standby

Fujii Masao wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 5:21 AM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> > Fujii Masao wrote:

> > Can't we create
> > some common function that would be called both here and on ServerLoop?
>
> Agreed. So, what about the attached patch?

No attachment ...

> > We also have sigusr1_handler that starts an archiver -- why does that
> > one use different conditions?
>
> Because that code path can be reached only during recovery.
> So XLogArchivingActive() which indicates whether archiver is
> allowed to start during normal processing doesn't need to be
> checked there.

Makes sense.

> OTOH, in the other places where archiver is started up,
> we can reach there during not only recovery but also normal processing.
> So the conditions that we need to check are different.

I think it would be simpler to centralize knowledge in a single
function, and have that function take an argument indicating whether
we're in recovery or normal processing, instead of spreading it to every
place that can possibly start the archiver.

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