Re: Streaming replication and WAL archive interactions

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: hlinnaka <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Venkata Balaji N <nag1010(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, Borodin Vladimir <root(at)simply(dot)name>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Streaming replication and WAL archive interactions
Date: 2015-05-13 13:29:49
Message-ID: CA+TgmoY+p5oowv1=Z44Zu14V70XKQZBkt+oEmwB+gAYYfDAV1Q@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 8:53 AM, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi> wrote:
> Our manual says that archive_command should refuse to overwrite an existing
> file. But to work-around the double-archival problem, where the same file is
> archived twice, it would be even better if it would simply return success if
> the file exists, *and has identical contents*. I don't know how to code that
> logic in a simple one-liner though.

This is why we really, really need that pg_copy command that was
proposed a while back.

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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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