Re: archive modules

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Benoit Lobréau <benoit(dot)lobreau(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Bossart, Nathan" <bossartn(at)amazon(dot)com>, David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)oss(dot)nttdata(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
Subject: Re: archive modules
Date: 2022-09-14 22:12:09
Message-ID: 2910705.1663193529@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 04:47:23PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Yeah, the objection there is only to trying to enforce such
>> interrelationships in GUC hooks. In this case it seems to me that
>> we could easily check and complain at the point where we're about
>> to use the GUC values.

> I think the cleanest way to do something like that would be to load a
> check_configured_cb that produces a WARNING. IIRC failing in
> LoadArchiveLibrary() would just cause the archiver process to restart over
> and over. HandlePgArchInterrupts() might need some work as well.

Hm. Maybe consistency-check these settings in the postmaster, sometime
after we've absorbed all GUC settings but before we launch any children?
That could provide a saner implementation for the recovery_target_*
variables too.

regards, tom lane

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