>> Umm, AFAICS, CheckPointTwoPhase() does not get called in the "standby
>> promote" code path.
>
> CreateRestartPoint() calls it via CheckPointGuts() while in recovery.
May be that I am missing something.
But, I put the recovery process and the checkpointer process of the
standby under gdb with breakpoints on these functions, but both did
not hit CreateRestartPoint() as well as CheckPointGuts() when I issued
a promote :-|
Regards,
Nikhils
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