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

Tom Lane wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
>> Simon Riggs wrote:
>>> We might also have written half a file many times. The files in pg_xlog
>>> are suspect whereas the files in the archive are not. If we have both we
>>> should prefer the archive.
>
>> Yep.
>
> Really? That will result in a change in the longstanding behavior of
> ordinary recovery.

Really? Not as far as I can see. Recovery has always tried to restore
WAL files from archive first, falling back to the copy in pg_xlog only
if restore_command returns failure.

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Heikki Linnakangas
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