Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakan...@vmware.com> writes: > On 13.02.2013 21:30, Tom Lane wrote: >> Well, archive recovery is a different scenario --- Simon was questioning >> whether we need a minRecoveryPoint mechanism in crash recovery, or at >> least that's what I thought he asked.
> Ah, ok. The short answer to that is "no", because in crash recovery, we > just replay the WAL all the way to the end. I thought he was questioning > updating the control file at every XLogFlush() during archive recovery. > The answer to that is that it's not so bad, because XLogFlush() is > called so infrequently during recovery. Right, and it's not so evil from a reliability standpoint either, partly because of that and partly because, by definition, this isn't your only copy of the data. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers