Re: missing documentation for partial WAL files - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Michael Paquier
Subject Re: missing documentation for partial WAL files
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Msg-id CAB7nPqTWoOD9yqmcCPkfPr+ycN=5jtkWKwr25PZF3++CZW8Akw@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: missing documentation for partial WAL files  (Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com>)
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On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 3:57 AM, Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
>> The commit message for de76884 contains some important information about
>> the purpose and use of the new .partial WAL files.  But I don't see
>> anything about this in the documentation or another user-visible place.
>>  We should probably add something.

This makes sense, those files are exposed in the user's archives when
the end of a timeline is reached at promotion. I think that this
should be added in "Continuous archiving in standby" with a new
paragraph, as the first paragraph argues about archive_mode = 'always'
and the second about 'on'. What about the attached?

> Uh, some documentation around .ready files would be nice too.

Why? Users normally need to have no knowledge of that, those status
files are managed only by the backend.
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Michael

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