Re: pg_stop_backup does not complete

Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>

To: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>

Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, jd@commandprompt.com, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2010-03-02T09:48:28Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 15:20 +0900, Fujii Masao wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 2:47 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> > Postgres 9.0 will be the first release to mention /bin/true as a way of
> > turning off archiving in extraordinary circumstances:
> >
> >        http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/runtime-config-wal.html
> 
> 
> > Setting archive_mode to a command that does nothing but return true, e.g. /bin/true,
> 
> "return true" seems ambiguous for me. How about writing clearly
> "return a zero exit status" instead?

Docs are already quite clear on that point. I think we should avoid
specifying it twice.

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