Re: Cannot change archive_command with a reload

On 2/2/14, 10:04 AM, Raghavendra wrote:
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> My issue is the &f instead of %f at the end. However here's the
> intent:
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> if the first command is true (cp %p /data/wal_tmp/%f) then I want
> the second command to execute (mv /data/wal_tmp/%f /data/wal/%f)
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> In this case archiver process fail, because there won't be directory
> called /data/wal_tmp anymore with your your "mv" command.
were moving the file %f not the directory

> since both directories are in the same file system the mv is
> immediate so any process watching for files to show up in
> /data/wal will never see a partial file
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> "partial file" ?
> Its 16MB file in any case there won't be any partial files, because
> after completion of writing 16mb file in xlog it will come to archive
> location else not.

we dont want the log shipper process to ship a file that is still being
copied from pg_xlog

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> --Raghav
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