Re: pg_receivexlog stops upon server restart

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com> wrote:
> On 10 April 2012 21:07, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
>> On Friday, April 6, 2012, Thom Brown wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've tried out pg_receivexlog and have noticed that when restarting
>>> the cluster, pg_receivexlog gets cut off... it doesn't keep waiting.
>>> This is surprising as the DBA would have to remember to start
>>> pg_receivexlog up again.
>>>
>>
>> This is intentional as far as that's how the code was written, there's not a
>> malfunctioning piece of code somewhere.
>>
>> It would probably make sense to have an auto-reconnect feature, and to have
>> an option to turn it on/off.
>>
>> If you haven't already (my wifi here is currently quite useless, which is
>> why I'm working on my email backlog, so I can't check), please add it to the
>> open items list.
>
> I think it would also be useful to add a paragraph to the
> documentation stating use-cases for this feature, and its advantages.

Attached is a patch that implements this. Seems reasonable?

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