From: | "Heikki Linnakangas" <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
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To: | "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
Cc: | "Greg Smith" <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>, "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, "Simon Riggs" <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "Bruce Momjian" <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, "Dave Page" <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, "PostgreSQL-development" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "List pgsql-patches" <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Martin Zaun" <Martin(dot)Zaun(at)Sun(dot)COM> |
Subject: | Re: [PATCHES] odd output in restore mode |
Date: | 2008-07-29 14:27:23 |
Message-ID: | 488F28CB.8000201@enterprisedb.com |
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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>
> Greg Smith wrote:
>> On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Kevin Grittner wrote:
>>
>>> In our scripts we handle this by copying to a temp directory on the
>>> same mount point as the archive directory and doing a mv to the
>>> archive location when the copy is successfully completed. I think
>>> that this even works on Windows. Could that just be documented as a
>>> strong recommendation for the archive script?
>>
>> This is exactly what I always do. I think the way cp is shown in the
>> examples promotes what's really a bad practice for lots of reasons,
>> this particular problem being just one of them.
>>
>> I've been working on an improved archive_command shell script that I
>> expect to submit for comments and potential inclusion in the
>> documentation as a better base for other people to build on. This is
>> one of the options for how it can operate. It would be painful but not
>> impossible to convert a subset of that script to run under Windows as
>> well, at least enough to cover this particular issue.
>
> A Perl script using the (standard) File::Copy module along with the
> builtin function rename() should be moderately portable. It would to be
> nice not to have to maintain two scripts.
It's also not very nice to require a Perl installation on Windows, just
for a replacement of Copy. Would a simple .bat script work?
--
Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
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