Re: archive_command during database shutdown

On Thu, 26 May 2016, 1:25 a.m. Jeff Janes, <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> I've recently wanted to run a different archive_command during
> database shutdown than during normal operations. In particular, if
> the normal archive process fails during normal operations, I want it
> to be retried later (as it currently does). But if it fails during
> shutdown, I want it to run a fallback archive_command.
>

What version of PostgreSQL are you using?

> The only way I can see to accomplish this is to have the
> archive_command try to connect back to the database and see if it gets
> an error. That seems pretty ugly. Is there a better way?
>

What's your goal here?

During a shutdown, if you don't so much care about checkpoint and fsync of
buffers to disk, you can do an immediate shutdown.

> Cheers,
>
> Jeff
>
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