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Package: postgresql-8.3
Version: 8.3.0-1
Severity: normal
Hi,
I'm trying out PITR in PostgreSQL for the first time (even though the
functionality was only new in 8.0). During recovery, I noticed somewhat
odd behaviour: When restoring, the admin needs to make a special
configuration file "recovery.conf" that contains a few commands on how
to recover etc.. However, unlike all other configuration files, this is
not expected to be in /etc/postgresql/8.3/main, but in the cluster
directory (/var/lib/postgresql/8.3/main), and the failure mode is rather
unintuitive.
I'm unsure if this is related to the removal of symlinks that happened
somewhere between 8.1 and 8.3 (?), but I guess it's just an oversight
somehow. For the record, everything else in the test upgrade went
smoothly -- as usual. :-)
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Re: Peter Eisentraut 2008-03-10 <[email protected]>
> Am Sonntag, 9. März 2008 schrieb Steinar H. Gunderson:
> > On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 03:33:09PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > >> and the failure mode is rather unintuitive.
> > >
> > > ... what is the "failure mode" you are referring to? How could this be
> > > made clearer?
> >
> > The documentation says to make a recovery.conf file, but not really where
> > it is.
>
> The documentation says, "Create a recovery command file recovery.conf in the
> cluster data directory". I think that is clear.
Hi Steinar,
while I agree that you have a point here, I think Peter is right in
saying that recovery is a special operation, and one can be expected
to check the documentation for special instructions. I don't think we
can convince postgresql upstream to change this behaviour, so I'm
closing this postgresql 8.3 bug report.
Christoph
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