On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 03:28 +0900, Fujii Masao wrote: > On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 2:42 AM, Simon Riggs <si...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > > The backup history file is a slightly bit quirky way of doing things and > > was designed when the transfer mechanism was file-based. > > > > Why don't we just write a new xlog record that contains the information > > we need? Copy the contents of the backup history file into the WAL > > record, just like we do with prepared transactions. That way it will be > > streamed to the standby without any other code being needed for SR, > > while we don't need to retest warm standby to check that still works > > also. > > This means that we can replace a backup history file with the corresponding > xlog record. I think that we should simplify the code by making the > replacement > completely rather than just adding new xlog record. Thought?
We can't do that because it would stop file-based archiving from working. I don't think we should deprecate that for another release at least. -- Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
