Re: Revised patch for fixing archiver shutdown behavior - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Simon Riggs
Subject Re: Revised patch for fixing archiver shutdown behavior
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Msg-id 1199980403.4266.772.camel@ebony.site
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In response to Re: Revised patch for fixing archiver shutdown behavior  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 12:28 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> Yeah, that seems the safest to me -- the problem is that it complicates
> the shutdown sequence a fair bit, because postmaster must act
> differently depending on whether archiving is enabled or not: wait for
> bgwriter exit if disabled, or for archiver exit otherwise.

If there's nothing to write, archiver will exit quickly, so in most
cases they will look the same.

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  Simon Riggs
  2ndQuadrant  http://www.2ndQuadrant.com


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