On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 12:28 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Yeah, that seems the safest to me -- the problem is that it complicates
> the shutdown sequence a fair bit, because postmaster must act
> differently depending on whether archiving is enabled or not: wait for
> bgwriter exit if disabled, or for archiver exit otherwise.
If there's nothing to write, archiver will exit quickly, so in most
cases they will look the same.
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Simon Riggs
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