Re: Backup history file should be replicated in Streaming Replication?
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2009-12-22T21:14:27Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> writes: > I think we could get away without the backup history file altogether. Hmmm ... actually I was confusing these with timeline history files, which are definitely not something we can drop. You might be right that the backup history file could be part of WAL instead. On the other hand, it's quite comforting that the history file is plain ASCII and can be examined without any special tools. I'm -1 for removing it, even if we decide to duplicate the info in a WAL record. regards, tom lane