Re: Improve shutdown during online backup, take 4 - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: Improve shutdown during online backup, take 4
Date
Msg-id 20080423160836.70606d45@mha-laptop
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In response to Re: Improve shutdown during online backup, take 4  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
Responses Re: Improve shutdown during online backup, take 4  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Magnus Hagander wrote:
>
> > Applied with some minor changes to the error messages to make them
> > closer to our guidelines. (With my track record, it's not entirely
> > unlikely that someone will fix them further though :-P)
>
> I think the messages should not have a newline in the middle.

Are you talking about the one in pg_ctl? We have other messages in
pg_ctl that already do this, so I figured it was ok there...


> Also, I am wondering if in PM_WAIT_BACKUP mode we should accept new
> connections from superusers only.

Oh yeah, bleh, that reminds me that I should send off the couple of
comments for further improvements I thought of.

One was just this.

Another was, should we expose the cancel backup as a SQL level command?

//Magnus

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