On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 09:45 -0800, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Simon, Fujii, All:
>
> While demoing HS/SR at SCALE, I ran into a problem which is likely to be
> a commonly encountered bug when people first setup HS/SR. Here's the
> sequence:
>
> 1) Set up a brand new master with an archive-commmand and archive=on.
>
> 2) Start the master
>
> 3) Do a pg_start_backup()
>
> 4) Realize, based on log error messages, that I've misconfigured the
> archive_command.
>
> 5) Attempt to shut down the master. Master tells me that pg_stop_backup
> must be run in order to shut down.
If I issue a shutdown, PostgreSQL should do whatever it needs to do to
shutdown; including issuing a pg_stop_backup.
Joshua D. Drake
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