Re: [HACKERS] Usability improvements for pg_stop_backup()

2014-08-03 Thread Kevin Grittner
Josh Berkus j...@agliodbs.com wrote: Currently, if archive_command is failing, pg_stop_backup() will hang forever.  The only way to figure out what's wrong with pg_stop_backup() is to tail the PostgreSQL logs.  This is difficult for users to troubleshoot, and strongly resists any kind of

[HACKERS] Usability improvements for pg_stop_backup()

2014-08-01 Thread Josh Berkus
Hackers, Since Gabrielle has improved archiving with pg_stat_archiver in 9.4, I'd like to go further and improve the usability of pg_stop_backup(). However, based on my IRC discussion with Vik, there might not be consensus on what the right behavior *should* be. This is for 9.5, of course.