On 2021-Aug-23, alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org wrote:
> The only way .ready files are created is that XLogNotifyWrite() is
> called. For regular WAL files during regular operation, that only
> happens in XLogNotifyWriteSeg(). That, in turn, only happens in
> NotifySegmentsReadyForArchive(). But if the system runs and never
> writes WAL records that cross WAL boundaries, that function will see
> that both earliestSegBoundary and latestSegBoundary are MaxXLogSegno,
> and return without doing anything. So no segments will be notified.
Nevermind -- I realized that all segments get registered, not just those
for which we generate continuation records.
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