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

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Make standby server continuously retry restoring the next WAL
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Msg-id 29146.1269002614@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Make standby server continuously retry restoring the next WAL  (Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>)
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Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> Simon Riggs wrote:
>> 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.

> Yep.

Really?  That will result in a change in the longstanding behavior of
ordinary recovery.  I'm unconvinced that this is wise.
        regards, tom lane


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