On 11/21/2013 12:46 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
> No. Check
> http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/20131120234141.GI18801%40awork2.anarazel.de
>
> The problem is starting with hot_standby=on on a system with
> recovery.conf present. It is independent of whether you use streaming
> replication, archive based recovery, or just shutdown the server and
> manually copy xlog segments there.
> As long as hot_standby=on, and recovery.conf is present you can hit the
> bug.
Oh, aha. There have to be some transactions which are awaiting
checkpoint, though, correct? As in, if there's no activity on the
master, you can't trigger the bug?
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