Re: Patch for fail-back without fresh backup

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: Pavan Deolasee <pavan(dot)deolasee(at)gmail(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>
Cc: Sawada Masahiko <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, Samrat Revagade <revagade(dot)samrat(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Patch for fail-back without fresh backup
Date: 2013-10-24 17:39:31
Message-ID: 52695B53.7050306@agliodbs.com
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On 10/24/2013 04:15 AM, Pavan Deolasee wrote:
> If we do what you are suggesting, it seems like a single line patch to me.
> In XLogSaveBufferForHint(), we probably need to look at this additional GUC
> to decide whether or not to backup the block.

Wait, what? Why are we having an additional GUC?

I'm opposed to the idea of having a GUC to enable failback. When would
anyone using replication ever want to disable that?

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Josh Berkus
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