Re: Clean shutdown and warm standby

From: Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, Guillaume Smet <guillaume(dot)smet(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Clean shutdown and warm standby
Date: 2009-04-28 15:14:34
Message-ID: 49F71D5A.8020408@pse-consulting.de
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Not at all, because the database would be very unhappy at restart
> if it can't find the checkpoint record pg_control is pointing to.
>

So for several weeks now all postings just say how it will _not_ work.
Does this boil down to "There's no way to make sure that a graceful
failover won't lose data"?

Regards,
Andreas

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