Re: pg_stop_backup does not complete

Fujii Masao wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 2:47 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
>
>> Postgres 9.0 will be the first release to mention /bin/true as a way of
>> turning off archiving in extraordinary circumstances:
>>
>> http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/runtime-config-wal.html
>>
>> Setting archive_mode to a command that does nothing but return true, e.g. /bin/true,
>>
>
> "return true" seems ambiguous for me. How about writing clearly
> "return a zero exit status" instead?
>

This is a good catch, and I have a work in progress update to that doc
section that fixes that wording, as well as rearranging the recent
additions a bit. Really that whole "/bin/true" big needs to go after
the example. A very brief intro to what "exit status" means on various
platforms might be in order too. I'm adjusting all that to read better,
once I'm happy with it I'll submit a doc patch in the next week or two
with the final result.

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