| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "Albe Laurenz" <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: backup_label and server start |
| Date: | 2007-11-20 15:48:46 |
| Message-ID: | 25388.1195573726@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"Albe Laurenz" <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at> writes:
> wouldn't it be a good thing
> for the startup process to ignore (and rename) the backup_label
> file if no recovery.conf is present?
No, it certainly wouldn't.
I don't see why we should simplify the bizarre case you're talking about
at the price of putting land mines under the feet of people who are
actually trying to do a restore. It hasn't lost any data for you,
and it gave you a correct HINT, so I don't have a problem with the
current behavior.
regards, tom lane
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