Bruce Momjian wrote: > Simon Riggs wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 09:13 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > Tom Lane wrote: > > > > Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com> writes: > > > > > I don't think we're going to get this to work reliably without > > > > > extending > > > > > the interface between the backend and restore_command. We've > > > > > discussed > > > > > many methods and there's always some nasty corner-case like that. > > > > > > > > > I think we should leave back-branches as is, and go with Simon's > > > > > suggestion to add new "recovery_end_command" that's run when the > > > > > recovery is finished. That's simpler and more reliable than any of > > > > > the > > > > > other approaches we've discussed, and might become handy for other > > > > > purposes as well. > > > > > > > > > Does someone want to take a stab at writing a patch for that? > > > > > > > > Does this conclusion mean that changing pg_standby is no longer > > > > on the table for 8.4? It certainly smells more like a new feature > > > > than a bug fix. > > > > > > I think the big frustration is that this issue was first brought up > > > March 25 and it took two months to resolve it, at which point we were in > > > beta. I think many hoped a better idea would emerge but often that just > > > doesn't happen and we have to do the best fix we can and move on. > > > > I agree, very frustrating. Why do you bring it up again now? > > Wny not? We are not going to improve unless we face our faults.
Oh, and I am backlogged on email, which is why I didn't mention it a week ago when this thread was active (which I think was your point). :-) -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
