Re: standby questions

On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, David Wall wrote:

> Is 'scp' by itself considered an "atomic tool" for copying files to the
> standby server?  Does "atomic" mean that the program should copy a file over
> using a temp file name and then renames at the end or does it mean something
> else?

That's correct.  You have to do it that way or the system in recovery mode
can start to consume the new segment file before it has been completely
copied over yet.

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