Re: InvalidXLogRecPtr in docs

From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Takahiro Itagaki <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)oss(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: InvalidXLogRecPtr in docs
Date: 2010-06-15 05:41:10
Message-ID: 4C171276.7060207@enterprisedb.com
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On 15/06/10 08:23, Fujii Masao wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:06 PM, Tom Lane<tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> I'm not sure if it's worth the trouble, or even a particularly smart
>> idea, to force the output of the status function to be monotonic
>> regardless of what happens underneath. I think removing that claim
>> from the docs altogether is the easiest answer.
>
> We should
>
> (1) just remove "While streaming replication is in progress this will
> increase monotonically." from the description about
> pg_last_xlog_receive_location()?
>
> or
>
> (2) add "But if streaming replication is restarted this will back off
> to the beginning of current WAL file" into there?
>
> I'm for (2) since it's more informative. Thought?

Something like (2) seems better, because even if we remove the note that
it increases monotonically, people might still assume that.

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Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

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