On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Mason Hale <mason@onespot.com> wrote:
> Of course the best solution is to avoid this issue entirely. Something as
> easy to miss as file permissions should not cause data corruption,
> especially in the process meant to fail over from a crashing primary
> database.
I believe that such a file permission problem does nothing but
shut down the standby by a FATAL error, and wouldn't cause data
corruption. So if you remove the trigger file with a wrong
permission after the shutdown, you can restart a recovery well
by just starting the standby postgres.
Regards,
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Fujii Masao
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
NTT Open Source Software Center
