Hi, I thought of this issue again since the related question arrived. http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-admin/2010-03/msg00036.php
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 7:13 AM, Fujii Masao <masao.fu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 9:34 PM, Heikki Linnakangas > <heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com> wrote: >> No, that's not an issue. We only wait for the backup-end record if we >> haven't seen yet since we started recovery from the base backup. >> Assuming the standby had reached that point already before the new >> backup from the standby started, backupStartLoc is zero in the control file. > > OK. That assumption should be documented? This comment is meaningless. Sorry for noise. > And, when we start an archive recovery from the backup from the standby, > we seem to reach a safe starting point before database has actually become > consistent. It's because backupStartLoc is zero. Isn't this an issue? This issue seems to still happen. So should this be fixed for 9.0? Or only writing a note in document is enough for 9.0? I'm leaning towards the latter. Regards, -- Fujii Masao NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION NTT Open Source Software Center -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
