On 5/12/10 8:07 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> I think that would be a good thing to check (it'll confirm whether
> this is the same bug), but I'm not convinced we should actually fix it
> that way. Prior to 8.4, we handled a smart shutdown during recovery
> at the conclusion of recovery, just prior to entering normal running.
> I'm wondering if we shouldn't revert to that behavior in both 8.4 and
> HEAD.
This would be OK as long as we document it well. We patched the
shutdown the way we did specifically because Fujii thought it would be
an easy fix; if it's complicated, we should revert it and document the
issue for DBAs.
Oh, and to confirm: the same issue exists, and has always existed, with
Warm Standby.
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