Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Make standby server continuously retry restoring the next WAL

From: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine(at)hi-media(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Make standby server continuously retry restoring the next WAL
Date: 2010-02-12 15:47:42
Message-ID: 3f0b79eb1002120747q3203bed6ue1bd07558ec2e38b@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>> So I suggest that you have a new action that gets called after every
>> checkpoint to clear down the archive. It will remove all files from the
>> archive prior to %r. We can implement that as a sequence of unlink()s
>> from within the server, or we can just call a script to do it. I prefer
>> the latter approach. However we do it, we need something initiated by
>> the server to maintain the archive and stop it from overflowing.
>
> +1

If we leave executing the remove_command to the bgwriter, the restartpoint
might not happen unfortunately for a long time. To prevent that situation, the
archiver should execute the command, I think. Thought?

Regards,

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Fujii Masao
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
NTT Open Source Software Center

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