>> 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 :-|
>
> No end-of-recovery checkpoints happen at promotion since 9.3. You can
> still use fallback_promote as promote file to trigger the pre-9.2 (9.2
> included) behavior.
Ok, so that means, we also need to fsync out these 2PC XIDs at promote
time as well for their durability.
Regards,
Nikhils
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