Re: Streaming replication status

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Streaming replication status
Date: 2010-01-15 04:20:41
Message-ID: 1263529241.26654.28801.camel@ebony
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On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 23:07 -0500, Greg Smith wrote:

> pg_last_archived_xlogfile() text: Get the name of the last file the
> archive_command [tried to|successfully] archived since the server was
> started. If archiving is disabled or no xlog files have become ready
> to archive since startup, a blank line will be returned.

OK

> It is possible for this function to return a result that does not
> reflect an actual xlogfile if files are manually added to the server's
> archive_status directory.

> I'd find this extremely handy as a hook for monitoring scripts that
> want to watch the server but don't have access to the filesystem
> directly, even given those limitations. I'd prefer to have the "tried
> to" version, because it will populate with the name of the troublesome
> file it's stuck on even if archiving never gets its first segment
> delivered.
>
> I'd happily write a patch to handle all that if I thought it would be
> accepted. I fear that the whole approach will be considered a bit too
> hackish and get rejected on that basis though. Not really sure of a
> "right" way to handle this though. Anything better is going to be
> more complicated because it requires passing more information into the
> archiver, with little gain for that work beyond improving the quality
> of this diagnostic routine. And I think most people would find what I
> described above useful enough.

Yes, please write it. It's separate from SR, so will not interfere.

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Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com

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