Re: Enabling archive_mode without restart

From: "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Simon Riggs" <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Heikki Linnakangas" <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Enabling archive_mode without restart
Date: 2008-11-12 15:48:57
Message-ID: 36e682920811120748s11d5b259r837a098f97f189ce@mail.gmail.com
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> Anyway, I think this is worth fixing before release but it clearly isn't
> worth attempting to rush a patch in the next few hours. I don't think
> we'll find anyone who is happy with making it a restart-required option.

I couldn't find a patch/commit for this and was just wondering whether
someone is addressing it for 8.4? In a large-scale OLTP environment,
uptime is paramount, and having to restart the database to enable PITR
is a big PITA.

--
Jonah H. Harris, Senior DBA
myYearbook.com

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