On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 4:09 AM, Simon Riggs <si...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > It's needed to find the place where the backup stopped, so it defines > the safe stopping point. We could easily pass that info via WAL, when > streaming. It doesn't actually matter until we try to failover.
Right. And, it's also needed to cooperate with HS which begins accepting read-only queries after a recovery reaches that safe stopping point. Regards, -- Fujii Masao NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION NTT Open Source Software Center -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers