Re: recovery_connections cannot start (was Re: master in standby mode croaks)

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: recovery_connections cannot start (was Re: master in standby mode croaks)
Date: 2010-04-23 22:03:56
Message-ID: 1272060236.4161.844.camel@ebony
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On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 17:43 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
> <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
> > So my proposal would be:
> >
> > wal_mode=crash/archive/standby
> > archive_mode=on/off # if on, wal_mode must be >= 'archive'
> > archive_command='command'
> > max_wal_senders=<integer> # if > 0, wal_mode must be >= 'archive'
>
> As a general design comment, I think we should avoid still having an
> archive_mode GUC but having it do something different. If we're going
> to change the semantics, we should also change the name, maybe to
> "archiving".

We don't need *both* wal_mode and archive_mode, since archive_mode
exists only to ensure that full WAL is written even when archive_command
= '' momentarily.

Should do this

> > wal_mode=crash/archive/standby
> > archive_command='command'
> > max_wal_senders=<integer> # if > 0, wal_mode must be >= 'archive'

and make wal_mode SIGHUP

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Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com

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