Re: missing documentation for partial WAL files

On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 3:57 AM, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
>> The commit message for de76884 contains some important information about
>> the purpose and use of the new .partial WAL files. But I don't see
>> anything about this in the documentation or another user-visible place.
>> We should probably add something.

This makes sense, those files are exposed in the user's archives when
the end of a timeline is reached at promotion. I think that this
should be added in "Continuous archiving in standby" with a new
paragraph, as the first paragraph argues about archive_mode = 'always'
and the second about 'on'. What about the attached?

> Uh, some documentation around .ready files would be nice too.

Why? Users normally need to have no knowledge of that, those status
files are managed only by the backend.
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Michael