On Sep23, 2011, at 18:45 , Robert Haas wrote:
> Ah. I think you are right - Heikki made the same point. Maybe some
> of the stuff that happens just after this comment:
>
> /*
> * Initialize for Hot Standby, if enabled. We won't let backends in
> * yet, not until we've reached the min recovery point specified in
> * control file and we've established a recovery snapshot from a
> * running-xacts WAL record.
> */
>
>
> ...actually needs to be postponed until after we've reached consistency?
I came the the same conclusion. It seems the before we've reached consistency,
we shouldn't attempt to read anything because the data can be pretty arbitrarily
garbled.
best regards,
Florian Pflug