Re: New trigger option of pg_standby

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, Guillaume Smet <guillaume(dot)smet(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: New trigger option of pg_standby
Date: 2009-04-21 11:03:56
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On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 17:47 +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:

> At the end of archive recovery, the server always probes for the
> timeline by requesting history files until it fails to find one. That
> probing should remove the trigger file if it hasn't been removed by
> then. It's a bit coincidental to rely on that, but at least it's simple.
> The assumption we're making is that the server won't exit recovery
> before asking restore_command for a file that doesn't exist.

If you really want to simplify this, then we should have a final_command
parameter for a command to be executed at the end of recovery. That
would make the change to pg_standby very simple and allow for a very
simple final_command also. That would make the logic similar to what we
do for aggregates: transition function and final function.

We could call it restore_cleanup_command or something similar.

I suspect this option will make you consider Fujii-san's patch in a
better light. :-)

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Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com
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