Re: Hot Standby on git

Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 10:43 +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> 
>> It seems dangerous to write a WAL record after the shutdown checkpoint.
>> It will be overwritten by subsequent startup, which is a recipe for trouble.
> 
> I've said its a corner case and not worth spending time on. I'm putting
> it in at your request. If it's not correct before and not correct after,
> where exactly do you want it?

I don't know. Perhaps it should go between the REDO pointer of the
shutdown checkpoint and the checkpoint record itself. Or maybe the
information should be included in the checkpoint record itself.

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