Re: pg_receivexlog stops upon server restart

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com> wrote:
> On 24 May 2012 13:05, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com> wrote:
>>> On 10 April 2012 21:07, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
>>>> On Friday, April 6, 2012, Thom Brown wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I've tried out pg_receivexlog and have noticed that when restarting
>>>>> the cluster, pg_receivexlog gets cut off... it doesn't keep waiting.
>>>>> This is surprising as the DBA would have to remember to start
>>>>> pg_receivexlog up again.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This is intentional as far as that's how the code was written, there's not a
>>>> malfunctioning piece of code somewhere.
>>>>
>>>> It would probably make sense to have an auto-reconnect feature, and to have
>>>> an option to turn it on/off.
>>>>
>>>> If you haven't already (my wifi here is currently quite useless, which is
>>>> why I'm working on my email backlog, so I can't check), please add it to the
>>>> open items list.
>>>
>>> I think it would also be useful to add a paragraph to the
>>> documentation stating use-cases for this feature, and its advantages.
>>
>> Attached is a patch that implements this. Seems reasonable?
>
> s/non fatal/non-fatal/
>
> Yes, this solves the problem for me, except you forgot to translate
> noloop in long_options[] . :)
Fixed :-)

Did you test it, or just assumed it worked? ;)

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