Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On Thu, 2007-12-27 at 17:29 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
>>> then a subsequent postmaster start could initiate a second archiver
>>> process which would cause issues with whatever the first archiver is
>>> doing.
>>
>> That's a problem that the archiver itself should fix (perhaps it needs
>> its own lockfile).
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-05/msg00920.php
I thought that sounded familiar ;-). What was the outcome of that
discussion? No patch for this ever got applied AFAICS. The patch
as posted had a few issues, per the thread, and I don't see a followup
version. (The alleged replacement patch did something else entirely.)
regards, tom lane