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Re: pg_standby supported versions


  • From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
  • To: Mark Kirkwood <markir(at)paradise(dot)net(dot)nz>
  • Cc: Decibel! <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>, pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org
  • Subject: Re: pg_standby supported versions
  • Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:11:42 +0000
  • Message-id: <1227805902.20796.69.camel@hp_dx2400_1> <text/plain>

On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 22:14 +1300, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
> Simon Riggs wrote:
> >
> > You'll have problems stopping and starting standby, but the most
> > important change is that the process is not restartable. So if you
> run
> > it for a month and then crash, you'll need to re-run the whole
> month's
> > WAL data.
> >
> >   
> Exactly, after posting this I discovered the relevant CVS logs for 
> changes to support restartable recovery. It seems to me that perhaps a 
> little more detail in the docs would be good here.

I would hope that the complete absence of anything would be all that is
required to dissuade people. We don't ever update the docs to say "BTW
feature X is not supported until next release". Not sure we should start
now.

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