Re: BUG #15402: Hot standby server with archive_mode=on keeps initial WAL segments

On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 01:44:30PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> I looked at this problem, and I completely agree.  From what I can see,
> the restart point run on the standby creates a .ready file for the
> oldest segment because there were no .done file present in it, so the
> checkpointer thinks that it should mark the file with .ready, and then
> makes it ready for archiving, which is never going to happen with
> archive_mode = on.  All the newer segments are already marked with
> .done, so they are getting recycled correctly.

I have spent a couple of hours on this problem, checked the behavior on
all branches, and committed the fix.  Thanks for the report!
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Michael