On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 10:41 +0200, Dimitri Fontaine wrote: > Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes: > > The only workable > > alternative I can see to keeping archive_mode is to tell people to > > set archive_command to something like /usr/bin/true ... which is not > > simpler, especially not on Windows. > > Would it be possible to have "internal" commands there, as for example > cd is in my shell, or test, or time, or some more ? > > That would allow for providing a portable /usr/bin/true command as far > as archiving is concerned (say, pg_archive_bypass), and will allow for > providing a default archiving command in the future, like "pg_archive_cp > /location" or something.
I think making a special case here is OK. If command string == 'true' then we don't bother to call system(3) at all, we just assume it worked fine. That way we have a simple route on all platforms. -- 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
