Re: archive status ".ready" files may be created too early

On 2021-Jul-30, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> We set archiver's latch on each XLogArchiveNotify(), but if we're doing
> it in a loop such as in NotifySegmentsReadyForArchive() perhaps it is
> better to create all the .ready files first and do PgArchWakeup() at the
> end.  I'm not convinced that this is useful but let's at least discard
> the idea explicitly if not.

hm, this causes an ABI change so it's not backpatchable.


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