On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 10:09 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Simon Riggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 09:06 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Do we really need a checkpoint there at all?
>
> > "Timelines only change at shutdown checkpoints".
>
> Hmm. I *think* that that is just a deb
Simon Riggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 09:06 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Do we really need a checkpoint there at all?
> "Timelines only change at shutdown checkpoints".
Hmm. I *think* that that is just a debugging crosscheck rather than a
critical property. But yeah, it w
On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 09:06 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Simon Riggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Having some trouble trying to get a clean state change from recovery to
> > normal mode.
>
> > Startup needs to be able to write WAL at the end of recovery so it can
> > write a ShutdownCheckpoint, ye
Simon Riggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Having some trouble trying to get a clean state change from recovery to
> normal mode.
> Startup needs to be able to write WAL at the end of recovery so it can
> write a ShutdownCheckpoint, yet must not be allowed to write WAL before
> that. Other services
On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 09:05 +0100, Simon Riggs wrote:
> Feels like I should shutdown the bgwriter after recovery and then
> allow it to be cranked up again after normal processing starts, and do
> all of this through postmaster state changes. That way bgwriter
> doesn't need to do a dynamic state
On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 15:45 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Simon Riggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Testing takes a while on this, I probably won't complete it until
> > Friday. So enclosed patch is for eyeballs only at this stage.
>
> What's the status on that patch?
Having some trouble trying to g
