Re: does wal archiving block the current client connection?

On Wed, 17 May 2006, Jeff Frost wrote:

> On Wed, 17 May 2006, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>> Did you try generating a test case using a long sleep() as a replacement
>> for the archive_command script? If there is a PG bug here it shouldn't
>> be that hard to expose it in a simple test case. I'm up to my armpits
>> in other stuff and don't have time to try it myself...
>
> Interesting that you should say that as I had just started setting up a test.
> I seem to get alot of these:
>
> May 17 21:34:04 discord postgres[20573]: [4-1] LOG: archived transaction log
> file "000000010000000000000001"
> May 17 21:34:04 discord postgres[20573]: [5-1] WARNING: could not rename
> file "pg_xlog/archive_status/000000010000000000000001.ready" to
> May 17 21:34:04 discord postgres[20573]: [5-2]
> "pg_xlog/archive_status/000000010000000000000001.done": No such file or
> directory
>
> I'm guessing that the archiver moves the WAL file to <wal filename>.ready,
> and successful completion, it renames it to <wal filename>.done?

Oh, except that they are 0 bytes, so they must be just status files.
Nevermind on that question. :-)

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