Re: Recovery bug - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Heikki Linnakangas
Subject Re: Recovery bug
Date
Msg-id 4CDC17C4.4060502@enterprisedb.com
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In response to Re: Recovery bug  (Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>)
Responses Re: Recovery bug
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On 11.11.2010 02:20, Jeff Davis wrote:
> There is a problem with this patch. ReadRecord() not only modifies
> global variables, it also modifies the location pointed to by "record",
> which is later used to set "wasShutdown". How about if we only set
> "wasShutdown" if there is no backup_label (because the checkpoint for
> pg_start_backup() will never be a shutdown checkpoint anyway)?

Oh, good catch.

> Trivial patch attached.

Hmm, you're assuming that the checkpoint specified in the backup label
is never a shutdown checkpoint. I guess that's true, but I'd rather do
this (patch attached).

(StartupXLOG is quite a mess...)

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   Heikki Linnakangas
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