On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 12:18:38AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > OK, I looked over the code. Basically it appears pg_arch is a > client-side program that copies files from pg_xlog to a specified > directory, and marks completion in a new pg_rlog directory. > > The driving part of the program seems to be: > > while ( (n = read( xlogfd, buf, BLCKSZ)) > 0) > if ( write( archfd, buf, n) != n) > return false; > > The program basically sleeps and when it awakes checks to see if new WAL > files have been created.
Is the API able to indicate a written but not-yet-filled WAL segment? So an archiver could copy the filled part, and refill it later. This may be needed because a segment could take a while to be filled. -- Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>) "Hoy es el primer día del resto de mi vida" ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
