Re: Minor recovery changes

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Minor recovery changes
Date: 2007-04-10 01:05:50
Message-ID: 200704100105.l3A15oa16213@momjian.us
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It will be applied as soon as one of the PostgreSQL committers reviews
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Simon Riggs wrote:
> As discussed on -hackers and -admin... a few minor changes, rolled into
> a single patch.
>
> - check we have an archiver to carry away WAL files at shutdown
> (was part of task 1)
>
> - archive_mode GUC, on which archive_command is dependent
> closing loophole to avoid data loss with wal-avoiding commands
> (was task 10)
>
> - %r option in recovery.conf sends last restartpoint to recovery command
> (was task 3)
>
> - %r handled in pg_standby, updated README
> (was task 4)
>
> - code cleanup of pg_standby in various minor places
>
> - doc on Warm Standby now includes pg_standby and %r
>
> - log_restartpoints shows LOG message for at each restartpoint, rather
> than DEBUG2 e.g.
> LOG: recovery restart point at 0/42000020
> (was task 5)
>
> - end of recovery now displays last transaction end time, as requested
> by Warren Little e.g.
> LOG: last completed transaction was at log time 2007-04-08 18:07:11 BST
> also shown at each restartpoint
> (discussed on -admin, mar 30)
>
> TODO (by me)
>
> - docs need another thorough refresh to pick up minor mentions of
> archive_command -> archive_mode
>
> - work out how to keep archiver alive long enough to archive last WAL
> file after a shutdown checkpoint... trickier than I imagined since it
> overlaps need for fast exit when performing restart, per last edit of
> the archiver code.
>
> - agree whether to allow pg_stop_backup() to exit before file archived
>
> Applies cleanly to CVS HEAD. Updated test files, all options tested.
>
> --
> Simon Riggs
> EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
>

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