On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 16:31 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 17:19 -0700, Martin Zaun wrote:
> >> reviewing your patch
>
> > Current status is this:
> > * My understanding is that Dave and Andrew (and therefore Simon) think
> > the approach proposed here is an acceptable one. Heikki disagrees and
> > wants different approach. Perhaps I misunderstand.
> > * Patch needs work to complete the proposed approach
> > * I'm willing to change the patch, but not able to test it on Windows.
>
> I thought the latest conclusion was that changing the behavior of
> pg_standby itself wouldn't address the problem anyway, and that what we
> need is just a docs patch recommending that people use safe copying
> methods in their scripts that copy to the archive area?
Plus the rest of this patch, which is really very simple.
pg_standby currently waits (on Windows) for the sleep time. We agreed
that this sleep would be on by default, but optional.
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