| From: | Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Selena Deckelmann <selenamarie(at)gmail(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Dividing progress/debug information in pg_standby, and stat before copy |
| Date: | 2010-01-26 14:48:42 |
| Message-ID: | 3f0b79eb1001260648m49f4b5c6ne28b3b1d6ace1928@mail.gmail.com |
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On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 8:54 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
> Simon Riggs wrote:
>> Currently, we had presumed
>> that standby_mode = off would be the same as Warm Standby replication,
>> using pg_standby or other.
>
> That's still true. standby_mode=off is the same as what you have in PG
> 8.4. You can still use pg_standby etc. with that.
>
>> pg_standby checks file size before returning. If you just use "cp" as
>> suggested then it would fail because the copy would start before the
>> file is ready to be copied.
>
> True. You could work around that by using a script instead of plain
> 'cp', or by making sure that no partial files appear in the archive in
> the other end.
How about just retrying SR instead of emitting a FATAL error in
RestoreArchivedFile() when a partial WAL file has been restored?
Regards,
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Fujii Masao
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
NTT Open Source Software Center
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