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

From Heikki Linnakangas
Subject Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Make standby server continuously retry restoring the next WAL
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Msg-id 4B73FB99.4080403@enterprisedb.com
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In response to Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Make standby server continuously retry restoring the next WAL  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>)
Responses Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Make standby server continuously retry restoring the next WAL
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Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 14:22 +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>> Simon Riggs wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 09:32 +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>>>> Hmm, so after running restore_command, check the file size and if it's
>>>> too short, treat it the same as if restore_command returned non-zero?
>>>> And it will be retried on the next iteration. Works for me, though OTOH
>>>> it will then fail to complain about a genuinely WAL file that's
>>>> truncated for some reason. I guess there's no way around that, even if
>>>> you have a script as restore_command that does the file size check, it
>>>> will have the same problem.
>>> Are we trying to re-invent pg_standby here?
>> That's not the goal, but we seem to need some of the same functionality
>> in the backend now.
> 
> I think you need to say why...

See the quoted paragraph above. We should check the file size, so that
we will not fail if the WAL file is just being copied into the archive
directory.

--  Heikki Linnakangas EnterpriseDB   http://www.enterprisedb.com


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