Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Make standby server continuously retry restoring the next WAL - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 13:08 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> > -1. it isn't necessary for PITR. It's a new requirement for
> > standby_mode='on', unless we add the file size check into the backend. I
> > think we should add the file size check to the backend instead and save
> > admins the headache.
> 
> I think the file size check needs to be in the backend purely on safety
> grounds.  Whether we make pg_standby useful for this context is a
> different discussion.

Happy with that.

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