On 15/02/2022 23:28, Tom Lane wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> writes:
>> That was interesting: the order that WAL segments are archived when a
>> standby is promoted is not fully deterministic.
>
> Oh, of course.
>
>> I find it a bit surprising that pg_stat_archiver.last_archived_wal is
>> not necessarily the highest-numbered segment that was archived. I
>> propose that we mention that in the docs, as in the attached patch.
>
> +1, but I think the description of that field in the pg-stat-archiver-view
> table is also pretty misleading. Maybe like
>
> - Name of the last WAL file successfully archived
> + Name of the WAL file most recently successfully archived
>
> and similarly s/last/most recent/ for the other fields claiming
> to be "last" something.
Makes sense, committed it that way.
- Heikki