Re: Include WAL in base backup - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: Include WAL in base backup
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Msg-id AANLkTik+uhk8BUd2JKGxKhCLtiLi3GQP9T4wEfWxg7rd@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Include WAL in base backup  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
Responses Re: Include WAL in base backup  (Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>)
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On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 16:34, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 15:04, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 10:28 PM, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> (the discussed changse above have been applied and pushed to github)
>>>
>>> Thanks! I'll test and review that.
>>
>> WAL file might get recycled or removed while walsender is reading it.
>> So the WAL file which pg_basebackup seemingly received successfully
>> might be actually invalid. Shouldn't we need to check that what we read
>> is valid as XLogRead does?

We should, and the easiest way is to actually use XLogRead() since the
code is already there. How about the way in this patch?

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