Re: Recovery bug

From: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>
To: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Recovery bug
Date: 2010-10-18 18:07:35
Message-ID: 1287425255.14324.18.camel@jdavis-ux.asterdata.local
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On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 17:02 +0900, Fujii Masao wrote:
> Yep, to automatically delete backup_label and continue recovery seems to be
> dangerous. How about just emitting FATAL error when neither restore_command
> nor primary_conninfo is supplied and backup_label exists? This seems to be
> simpler than your proposed patch (i.e., check whether REDO location exists).
>

Either is fine with me.

Do users have any expectation that they can restore a backup without
using recovery.conf by merely having the WAL segments in pg_xlog?

Regards,
Jeff Davis

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