On 2020-Mar-10, Kyotaro Horiguchi wrote: > At Mon, 9 Mar 2020 20:34:20 -0700, Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote > in > > On 2020-03-10 12:27:25 +0900, Kyotaro Horiguchi wrote: > > > That's true, but I have the same concern with Tom. The archive bacame > > > too-tightly linked with other processes than actual relation. > > > > What's the problem here? We have a number of helper processes > > (checkpointer, bgwriter) that are attached to shared memory, and it's > > not a problem. > > That theoretically raises the chance of server-crash by a small amount > of probability. But, yes, it's absurd to prmise that archiver process > crashes.
The case I'm worried about is a misconfigured archive_command that causes the archiver to misbehave (exit with a code other than 0); if that already doesn't happen, or we can make it not happen, then I'm okay with the changes to archiver. -- Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
