Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 09:32 +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>> Hmm, so after running restore_command, check the file size and if it's
>> too short, treat it the same as if restore_command returned non-zero?
>> And it will be retried on the next iteration. Works for me, though OTOH
>> it will then fail to complain about a genuinely WAL file that's
>> truncated for some reason. I guess there's no way around that, even if
>> you have a script as restore_command that does the file size check, it
>> will have the same problem.
>
> Are we trying to re-invent pg_standby here?
That's not the goal, but we seem to need some of the same functionality
in the backend now.
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