Re: Corner case in xlog stuff: what happens exactly at a seg boundary? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Corner case in xlog stuff: what happens exactly at a seg boundary?
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Msg-id 506.1154969220@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Corner case in xlog stuff: what happens exactly at a  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>)
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Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On Sat, 2006-08-05 at 23:59 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> After further thought I desisted from that plan: changing the result
>> convention of existing functions like pg_stop_backup() will break any
>> existing archiving scripts that do get it right.  Instead, we can put
>> the boundary-case logic into the new functions that extract a filename
>> from the WAL location string that the action functions return.

> This is done right? Ping me back if there's anything more to add.

It's done unless someone wants to change what I did ... at least as
far as the code goes.  We might need more explanation in backup.sgml
about proper use of this stuff.
        regards, tom lane


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