Re: Corner case in xlog stuff: what happens exactly at a seg boundary?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Corner case in xlog stuff: what happens exactly at a seg boundary?
Date: 2006-08-07 16:47:00
Message-ID: 506.1154969220@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> On Sat, 2006-08-05 at 23:59 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> After further thought I desisted from that plan: changing the result
>> convention of existing functions like pg_stop_backup() will break any
>> existing archiving scripts that do get it right. Instead, we can put
>> the boundary-case logic into the new functions that extract a filename
>> from the WAL location string that the action functions return.

> This is done right? Ping me back if there's anything more to add.

It's done unless someone wants to change what I did ... at least as
far as the code goes. We might need more explanation in backup.sgml
about proper use of this stuff.

regards, tom lane

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