On 15/06/10 08:23, Fujii Masao wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:06 PM, Tom Lane<tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> I'm not sure if it's worth the trouble, or even a particularly smart
>> idea, to force the output of the status function to be monotonic
>> regardless of what happens underneath. I think removing that claim
>> from the docs altogether is the easiest answer.
>
> We should
>
> (1) just remove "While streaming replication is in progress this will
> increase monotonically." from the description about
> pg_last_xlog_receive_location()?
>
> or
>
> (2) add "But if streaming replication is restarted this will back off
> to the beginning of current WAL file" into there?
>
> I'm for (2) since it's more informative. Thought?
Something like (2) seems better, because even if we remove the note that
it increases monotonically, people might still assume that.
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