On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 23:27 +0900, Fujii Masao wrote:
> I agree that this is a bigger problem. Since the standby always starts
> walreceiver before replaying any WAL files in pg_xlog, walreceiver tries
> to receive the WAL files following the REDO starting point even if they
> have already been in pg_xlog. IOW, the same WAL files might be shipped
> from the primary to the standby many times. This behavior is unsmart,
> and should be addressed.
We might also have written half a file many times. The files in pg_xlog
are suspect whereas the files in the archive are not. If we have both we
should prefer the archive.
-- Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com
