Re: Small fixes about backup history file in doc and pg_standby

From: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Yugo Nagata <nagata(at)sraoss(dot)co(dot)jp>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Small fixes about backup history file in doc and pg_standby
Date: 2018-06-26 15:58:18
Message-ID: CAHGQGwHJ7u2mm6yOiSdXK09O2wvhtDM2xhtjYa2d7eV1j0_o2A@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 5:47 PM, Yugo Nagata <nagata(at)sraoss(dot)co(dot)jp> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> While looking into the backup and recovery code, I found small documentation bugs.
> The documatation says that the backup history files can be requested for recovery,
> but it's not used by the system and not requested anymore since PG 9.0
> (commit 06f82b29616cd9effcaefd99c6b6e2e80697482f) and never be requested.
>
> Attached patch (doc_backup_history_file.patch) corrects the description about this.

Pushed. Thanks!

> In addition, the current pg_standby still can handle a backup history file that are
> never requested. It is harmless but unnecessary code. Another attached patch
> (pg_standby.patch) removes this part of code.

Since this is not bug fix, let's discuss this in 12dev cycle.

Regards,

--
Fujii Masao

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