Fujii Masao wrote:
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 12:36 AM, Simon Riggs <si...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 21:43 +0100, Simon Riggs wrote:
On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 21:26 +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:

This whole thing can be considered to be a new feature.
recovery.conf will contain a new optional parameter:

recovery_end_command (string)
Implemented.

+               ereport(signaled ? FATAL : WARNING,
+                               (errmsg("recovery_end_command \"%s\": return code 
%d",
+                                                               
xlogRecoveryEndCmd, rc)));

In fast failover case, pg_standby has to delete the trigger file immediately
if it's found. Otherwise, recovery may go wrong as I already described.
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-04/msg01139.php

And if you delete it immediately, you risk getting stuck if there's extra WAL files in pg_xlog. So still need the change in the backend to not call restore_command again for a WAL segment equal to or later than one that it already failed to restore. Or, we can truncate the trigger file to make it behave like a smart failover for the subsequent pg_standby calls.

So, in fast mode, recovery_end_command would always fail to delete the
trigger file, and cause warning. This is odd behavior, I think. We should
change WARNING to DEBUG2 like RestoreArchivedFile() in the above code?

I think we should just change the pg_standby example to use "rm -f" rather than "rm". It seems useful to give a warning if the command fails.

--
  Heikki Linnakangas
  EnterpriseDB   http://www.enterprisedb.com

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