| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, Erik Rijkers <er(at)xs4all(dot)nl>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: pg_ctl restart - behaviour based on wrong instance |
| Date: | 2011-10-12 18:10:57 |
| Message-ID: | 201110121810.p9CIAv823177@momjian.us |
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Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > I looked over this issue and I don't thinking having pg_ctl restart fall
> > back to 'start' is a good solution. ?I am concerned about cases where we
> > start a different server without shutting down the old server, for some
> > reason. ?When they say 'restart', I think we have to assume they want a
> > restart.
> >
> > What I did do was to document that not backing up postmaster.pid and
> > postmaster.opts might help prevent pg_ctl from getting confused.
>
> Should we exclude postmaster.opts from streaming base backups? We
> already exclude postmaster.pid...
Uh, I think so, unless my analysis was wrong.
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