From: | "Heikki Linnakangas" <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
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To: | "Martin Zaun" <Martin(dot)Zaun(at)Sun(dot)COM> |
Cc: | "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, "Greg Smith" <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>, "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, "Simon Riggs" <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "Bruce Momjian" <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, "Dave Page" <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, "PostgreSQL-development" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "List pgsql-patches" <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: [PATCHES] odd output in restore mode |
Date: | 2008-07-31 16:05:16 |
Message-ID: | 4891E2BC.203@enterprisedb.com |
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Martin Zaun wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>> Greg Smith wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Kevin Grittner wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I've been working on an improved archive_command shell script that I
>>>> expect to submit for comments and potential inclusion in the
>>>> documentation as a better base for other people to build on. This is
>>>> one of the options for how it can operate. It would be painful but
>>>> not impossible to convert a subset of that script to run under
>>>> Windows as well, at least enough to cover this particular issue.
>>>
>>> A Perl script using the (standard) File::Copy module along with the
>>> builtin function rename() should be moderately portable. It would to
>>> be nice not to have to maintain two scripts.
>>
>> It's also not very nice to require a Perl installation on Windows,
>> just for a replacement of Copy. Would a simple .bat script work?
>
> With these avenues to be explored, can the pg_standby patch on the
> CommitFest wiki be moved to the "Returned with Feedback" section?
Yes, I think we can conclude that we don't want this patch as it is.
Instead, we want a documentation patch that describes the problem,
mentioning that GNU cp is safe, or you can use the copy+rename trick.
--
Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
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