Re: Standby Mode

On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 18:49 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > [I have an outstanding question on how to include LWlock support into
> > the archiver, required to flesh out the feature set, and of course
> > assuming these patches being accepted.]
> 
> The archiver is deliberately designed not to be connected to shared
> memory.  If you want to change that you'll have to make a very strong
> case why we should give up the safety and security advantages of it.

We should let the user decide. 

If archiver_timeout is a server start GUC then we can attach to shared
memory if it is set, if not we avoid that.

If they are in a position to want that functionality they can make that
trade-off.

--  Simon Riggs EnterpriseDB          http://www.enterprisedb.com