| From: | Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
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| To: | Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Bernd Helmle <mailings(at)oopsware(dot)de>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: pg_stop_backup does not complete |
| Date: | 2010-03-02 07:11:50 |
| Message-ID: | 4B8CBA36.2030304@enterprisedb.com |
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Greg Smith wrote:
> Fujii Masao wrote:
>> We would be easily able to calculate the last archived log file from
>> the existence of archive status files.
>
> Right, but you have to actually scan the whole archive directory to
> figure that out, and I'd rather not see that code get duplicated
> somewhere else when it's already inside the archive_command logic. If
> it just shared that info with the rest of the system instead this would
> be trivial to discover.
The archiver process is not connected to shared memory, so scanning the
directory is the way to do it.
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Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
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