Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Kevin Grittner wrote:
>>>>> "Heikki Linnakangas" <heikki@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>>> We really need a more reliable way of detecting that a file has been
>>> fully copied.
>>
>> In our scripts we handle this by copying to a temp directory on the
>> same mount point as the archive directory and doing a mv to the
>> archive location when the copy is successfully completed. I think
>> that this even works on Windows. Could that just be documented as a
>> strong recommendation for the archive script?
>
> Needs testing at least. If it does in fact work then we can just adjust
> the docs and be done
Yeah.
> - or maybe provide a .bat file or perl script that
> would work as na archive_command on Windows.
We're not talking about archive_command. We're talking about the thing
that copies files to the directory that pg_standby polls.
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Heikki Linnakangas
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