Re: [ADMIN] does wal archiving block the current client connection?

On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 12:03 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > OK, I'm on it.
> 
> What solution have you got in mind?  I was thinking about an fcntl lock
> to ensure only one archiver is active in a given data directory.  That
> would fix the problem without affecting anything outside the archiver.
> Not sure what's the most portable way to do it though.

I was trying to think of a better way than using an archiver.pid file in
pg_xlog/archive_status...

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