Hi,
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 6:56 PM, Fujii Masao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The immediate shutdown (pg_ctl -m i stop) might not be able to
> kill the startup process during archive recovery. It's because
> the startup process calls system() which ignores SIGQUIT for
> executing the restore_command. So, only the startup process
> might survive the immediate shutdown and continue redoing up
> to the end. Is this desirable behavior? This sounds odd for me.
In RestoreArchivedFile(), there is the following code as the safeguard
against the termination of restore_command by signal. But the
safeguard might not work if restore_command defines its own signal
handler for SIGQUIT like pg_standby.
> signaled = WIFSIGNALED(rc) || WEXITSTATUS(rc) > 125;
>
> ereport(signaled ? FATAL : DEBUG2,
> (errmsg("could not restore file \"%s\" from archive: return code %d",
> xlogfname, rc)));
Regards,
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Fujii Masao
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
NTT Open Source Software Center
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