Re: [pgsql-patches] pg_standby

At the risk of starting trouble, is there some reason this was added to
contrib and not put on pgfoundry ?

On Thursday 08 February 2007 10:09, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Patch applied. Thanks.
>
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> Simon Riggs wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 16:15 +0000, Simon Riggs wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 10:05 -0500, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> > > > On 12/28/06, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 19:26 +0000, Simon Riggs wrote:
> > > > > > On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 12:04 +0000, Simon Riggs wrote:
> > > > > > > pg_standby and test framework, in separate .tar files
> > > > > >
> > > > > > New version (v2), following further testing.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Signal handling not included in this version.
> > > > >
> > > > > Signal handling now added, tested and working correctly in version
> > > > > 3, attached.
> > > > >
> > > > > pg_standby is an example program for a warm standby script as
> > > > > discussed on -hackers:
> > > > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-08/msg00407.php
> > > > >
> > > > > Program looks complete and ready for review, to me.
> > > >
> > > > I double checked and re-ran all my test and confirmed that pg_standby
> > > > move (-m) mode is definitely busted in v3 in the sense that a restart
> > > > of the standby will not resume recovery and requires a pg_resetxlog
> > > > to become operational -- it needs one more WAL file back than the
> > > > oldest one available.
> > >
> > > new v4
> > >
> > > Changes
> > > - removed -m command, design flaw in original spec, use -l instead
> > > - added -k N command to cleanup archive and leave max N files
> > > - fflush() points added to allow Windows debug
> > > - bug fix: when .history file present
> > > - bug fix: command line switch cleanup
> > > - readme updated
> >
> > new v6 (v5 was Windows dev release)
> >
> > Changes
> >
> > - added -r option to specify maxretries
> > - -l option for Windows Vista (only) using mklink
> > - Windows examples and docs added to readme
> > - code restructured to allow more easy customization
> > - bug fix: -k 0 error fixed
> >
> > - successful port report from Dave Page on Windows XP
> >
> > --
> > Simon Riggs
> > EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
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