Re: Recovery bug

From: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Recovery bug
Date: 2010-10-19 05:51:25
Message-ID: AANLkTiki8Tnauc1wDoh49hxgQN8gOkd518PsYF5E7QYZ@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 7:00 AM, Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com> wrote:
>> > Do users have any expectation that they can restore a backup without
>> > using recovery.conf by merely having the WAL segments in pg_xlog?
>>
>> I would expect that to work.

What's the use case?

> If that's the expectation, I believe my original fix has less impact.
> It's essentially a sanity check to make sure that the first segment
> needed is available before proceeding.

If that's really useful for some cases, I agree with your fix.

Regards,

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Fujii Masao
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
NTT Open Source Software Center

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