On Sat, 2013-11-30 at 15:56 -0800, Peter Geoghegan wrote: > On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 5:11 AM, Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> wrote: > > How about this? > > Hmm. You say: > > + If the command returns a nonzero exit status then a warning log > + message will be written. An exception is that if the command was > + terminated by a signal or an error by the shell (such as command not > + found), a fatal error will be raised. > > But in the case of the archiver, in contrast to the startup process, > this isn't really a big deal. It'll just pick up where it left off. > Whereas the reaper code shuts down the system if this happens in the > startup process. In my opinion that's a distinction that bears > emphasizing.
That snippet you quote is about archive_cleanup_command. My patch doesn't touch archive_command at all. The current documentation about archive_command contains <para> It is important that the archive command return zero exit status if and only if it succeeds. Upon getting a zero result, <productname>PostgreSQL</> will assume that the file has been successfully archived, and will remove or recycle it. However, a nonzero status tells <productname>PostgreSQL</> that the file was not archived; it will try again periodically until it succeeds. </para> which I think addresses your point. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers