Simon Riggs wrote: > On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 11:47 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > > "Simon Riggs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 11:15 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > > >> It strikes me that allowing archive_command to be changed on the fly > > >> might not be such a good idea though, or at least it shouldn't be > > >> possible to flip it from empty to nonempty during live operation. > > > > > I'd rather fix it the proposed way than force a restart. ISTM wrong to > > > have an availability feature cause downtime. > > > > I don't think that people are very likely to need to turn archiving on > > and off on-the-fly. Your proposed solution introduces a great deal of > > complexity (and risk of future bugs-of-omission, to say nothing of race > > conditions) to solve a non-problem. We have better things to be doing > > with our development time. > > It's certainly a quicker fix. Unless others object, I'll set > archive_command to only be changeable at server startup.
Simon, has this patch been submitted? -- Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
