Re: [PATCHES] odd output in restore mode

From: "Heikki Linnakangas" <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, "Simon Riggs" <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "Bruce Momjian" <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, "Dave Page" <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, "PostgreSQL-development" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "List pgsql-patches" <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Martin Zaun" <Martin(dot)Zaun(at)Sun(dot)COM>
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] odd output in restore mode
Date: 2008-07-28 07:28:06
Message-ID: 488D7506.9000903@enterprisedb.com
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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Kevin Grittner wrote:
>>>>> "Heikki Linnakangas" <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>>> We really need a more reliable way of detecting that a file has been
>>> fully copied.
>>
>> In our scripts we handle this by copying to a temp directory on the
>> same mount point as the archive directory and doing a mv to the
>> archive location when the copy is successfully completed. I think
>> that this even works on Windows. Could that just be documented as a
>> strong recommendation for the archive script?
>
> Needs testing at least. If it does in fact work then we can just adjust
> the docs and be done

Yeah.

> - or maybe provide a .bat file or perl script that
> would work as na archive_command on Windows.

We're not talking about archive_command. We're talking about the thing
that copies files to the directory that pg_standby polls.

--
Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

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