| From: | Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
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| To: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Guillaume Smet <guillaume(dot)smet(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Clean shutdown and warm standby |
| Date: | 2009-05-28 13:52:44 |
| Message-ID: | 4A1E972C.7070202@enterprisedb.com |
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Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 16:19 +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>> Simon Riggs wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 14:04 +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've committed a patch to do the RequstXLogSwitch() before shutdown
>>>> checkpoint as discussed. It seems safe to me. (sorry for the delay, and
>>>> thanks for the reminder)
>>> Not sure if that is a fix that will work in all cases.
>>>
>>> There is a potential timing problem with when the archiver is shutdown:
>>> that may now be fixed in 8.4, see what you think.
>> Can you elaborate?
>
> Is the archiver still alive and working after the log switch occurs?
Yes.
> If the archiver is working, but has fallen behind at the point of
> shutdown, does the archiver operate for long enough to ensure we are
> archived up to the point of the log switch prior to checkpoint?
Yes, it archives all pending WAL segments before exiting.
Ok, we're good then I guess.
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Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
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