Re: backup_label in a crash recovery

From: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Andrew Gierth <andrew(at)tao11(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk>
Cc: Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: backup_label in a crash recovery
Date: 2009-11-04 01:58:38
Message-ID: 3f0b79eb0911031758s248c13e5vcfd594c3d30f12bf@mail.gmail.com
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Hi,

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:01 AM, Andrew Gierth
<andrew(at)tao11(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk> wrote:
> 2) you're starting up in a data dir that is a restore of a base backup,
>   but no recovery.conf has been created

Is the scenario 2 (i.e., a normal crash recovery without recovery.conf)
supported in postgres? But, anyway, it's possible by admin's error in
operation. So maybe backup_label should not be removed automatically for
the fail-safe protection, in that case.

Regards,

--
Fujii Masao
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
NTT Open Source Software Center

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