Re: Patch to add a feature to pg_standby

[David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 12:49:44PM +0100, Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 11:29 +0100, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> > This could be implemented by a "pass-through" restore_command,
> > that calls pg_standby, and does the custom action when pg_standby
> > returns successfully. 
> 
> Yes, that's the preferred route for most cases.
> 
> pg_standby was designed to be customisable, so if it works for
> Chris, thats OK.
> 
> After some mulling on this, I'm not sure we need to include this in
> pg_standby however. If we did we'd end up having before/after
> commands and retry options etc.

Would those be good things to have as a whole package?

Cheers,
David.
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