Re: Patch to add a feature to pg_standby

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, chris(dot)johnson(at)desknetinc(dot)com, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Patch to add a feature to pg_standby
Date: 2008-04-30 14:43:54
Message-ID: 1209566634.4391.505.camel@ebony.site
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On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 07:31 -0700, David Fetter wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 12:49:44PM +0100, Simon Riggs wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 11:29 +0100, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> > > This could be implemented by a "pass-through" restore_command,
> > > that calls pg_standby, and does the custom action when pg_standby
> > > returns successfully.
> >
> > Yes, that's the preferred route for most cases.
> >
> > pg_standby was designed to be customisable, so if it works for
> > Chris, thats OK.
> >
> > After some mulling on this, I'm not sure we need to include this in
> > pg_standby however. If we did we'd end up having before/after
> > commands and retry options etc.
>
> Would those be good things to have as a whole package?

I think the answer is we already do. It's called bash.

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Simon Riggs
2ndQuadrant http://www.2ndQuadrant.com

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