Re: pg_standby for 8.2 (with last restart point)

On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 00:54 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com> writes:
> > ... That was a small change in a utility that should never be run on a
> > production system.  You're trying to get a change made to the code path
> > people rely on for their *backups*.  Good luck with that.
>
> While I quite agree with Greg's comments about not changing stable
> release branches unnecessarily, it seems that there's another
> consideration in this case.  If we don't back-patch %r then users
> will have to rely on hacky scripts like the one posted upthread.
> Is that really a net gain in reliability?
>
> (I'm honestly not sure of the answer; I'm just thinking it might
> be open to debate.  In particular I don't remember how complicated
> the patch to add %r was.)

Here's the original patch, edited to remove pg_standby changes.

I've not even checked whether it will apply, but it seems fairly simple.

Gurjeet, would you like to freshen and test that up for apply to 8.2?

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