Re: pg_stop_backup does not complete - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Heikki Linnakangas
Subject Re: pg_stop_backup does not complete
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Msg-id 4B8CBA36.2030304@enterprisedb.com
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In response to Re: pg_stop_backup does not complete  (Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>)
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Greg Smith wrote:
> Fujii Masao wrote:
>> We would be easily able to calculate the last archived log file from
>> the existence of archive status files.
> 
> Right, but you have to actually scan the whole archive directory to
> figure that out, and I'd rather not see that code get duplicated
> somewhere else when it's already inside the archive_command logic.  If
> it just shared that info with the rest of the system instead this would
> be trivial to discover.

The archiver process is not connected to shared memory, so scanning the
directory is the way to do it.

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


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