On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 15:04 +0100, Albe Laurenz wrote: > Simon Riggs wrote: > >> If somebody stops the postmaster while an online backup is > >> in progress, there is no warning or nothing. Only the server > >> will fail to restart. > > > > Well, it seems best not to do this. There is always a need > > for a careful > > procedure to manually shutdown a live server, interlocking with other > > applications. ISTM like a manual procedure will resolve this for you. > > You're arguing that there *should* be a manual intervention > if a server was shutdown while a backup was active.
Shutting down the server was a manual action, so what is wrong in a manual action to recover from that mistake? If the shutdown was automatic, then it needs to be properly scheduled so automatic actions do not conflict with one another. -- Simon Riggs 2ndQuadrant http://www.2ndQuadrant.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
