From: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com> |
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To: | Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Robert Treat <rob(at)xzilla(dot)net>, Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Subject: | Re: postgresql.conf archive_command example |
Date: | 2011-09-08 06:26:10 |
Message-ID: | CA+U5nMKMrvHzd5tsgeHs4OAi5ntYna0uhOxK6sJ0gwP+B8-eqg@mail.gmail.com |
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On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 7:05 AM, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:53 PM, Robert Treat <rob(at)xzilla(dot)net> wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 10:11 PM, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>> I agree that basically archive_command should not overwrite an existing file.
>>> But if the size of existing file is less than 16MB, it should do that.
>>> Otherwise,
>>> that WAL file would be lost forever.
>>
>> I think best practice in this case is that if you ever find an
>> existing file with the same name already in place, you should error
>> and investigate. We don't ship around partially completed WAL files,
>> and finding an existing one probably means something went wrong. (Of
>> course, we use rsync instead of copy/move, so we have some better
>> guarantees about this).
>
> That's an option. But I don't think that finding an existing file is so serious
> problem.
The recommendation should be that the archived files are never
overwritten because that prevents a huge range of data loss bugs and
kills them stone dead.
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Simon Riggs http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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