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

From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(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 13:10:21
Message-ID: 4B75533D.2000703@enterprisedb.com
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Simon Riggs wrote:
> In 8.4 it is pg_standby that was responsible for clearing down the
> archive, which is why I suggested using pg_standby for that again. I
> agree that will not work. The important thing is not pg_standby but that
> we have a valid mechanism for clearing down the archive.

Good point. When streaming from the master, the standby doesn't call
restore_command, and restore_command doesn't get a chance to clean up
old files.

> 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

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Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

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