On Sat, 2006-08-05 at 23:59 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > I wrote: > > Rather than expecting user-level scripts to get this corner case > > right, I suggest that we ought to modify pg_stop_backup and friends > > so that what they return is the last used byte address of WAL, not > > the first unused byte address as now. Then, blindly extracting > > the filename will give the right answer about which file to archive, > > even in the boundary case. > > After further thought I desisted from that plan: changing the result > convention of existing functions like pg_stop_backup() will break any > existing archiving scripts that do get it right. Instead, we can put > the boundary-case logic into the new functions that extract a filename > from the WAL location string that the action functions return.
This is done right? Ping me back if there's anything more to add. -- Simon Riggs EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
