Greg Smith wrote:
> Fujii Masao wrote:
>> We would be easily able to calculate the last archived log file from
>> the existence of archive status files.
>
> Right, but you have to actually scan the whole archive directory to
> figure that out, and I'd rather not see that code get duplicated
> somewhere else when it's already inside the archive_command logic. If
> it just shared that info with the rest of the system instead this would
> be trivial to discover.
The archiver process is not connected to shared memory, so scanning the
directory is the way to do it.
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