Re: pg_stop_backup wait bug fix

On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 18:32 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Simon Riggs wrote:
> > Minor bug fix for pg_stop_backup() to prevent it waiting longer than
> > necessary in certain circumstances.
> 
> As far as I can tell, this patch needs to be applied to HEAD, 8.3 and
> 8.2 (when xlog switch was implemented), and in fact it applies cleanly
> to them.  Please confirm.

There are other patches that we should consider along with this one.

This particular patch only has meaning when applied with the changes to
pg_stop_backup() earlier in 8.4dev cycle. It isn't a bug in xlog switch,
it is a bug in how the new waiting code interprets the return value from
xlog switch.

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