On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 10:13 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Something I'm still wondering is about the archiver/logger combination. > > What happens if a postmaster is stopped by the user and the archiver is > > still running, and the user starts a new postmaster? This would launch > > a new archiver and logger; and there are now two loggers possibly > > writing to the same files, and truncated log lines could occur. > > I'm not nearly as worried about that as I am about the prospect of > two concurrent archivers :-(
How strange, I was just looking at that particular possibility when your mail arrived. The earlier patch looks good, but I see you've reverted the PostmasterIsAlive() check in pgarch_ArchiverCopyLoop(). That was put in to prevent multiple archivers. Can we keep that? -- Simon Riggs 2ndQuadrant http://www.2ndQuadrant.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
