Re: [Patch] pg_rewind: options to use restore_command from recovery.conf or command line

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Alexey Kondratov <a.kondratov@postgrespro.ru>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, vladimirlesk@yandex-team.ru, Dmitriy Sarafannikov <dsarafan@yandex-team.ru>
Date: 2019-02-16T03:41:36Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

Commits

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  1. Move frontend-side archive APIs from src/common/ to src/fe_utils/

  2. Add -c/--restore-target-wal to pg_rewind

  3. Move routine definitions of xlogarchive.c to a new header file

  4. Move routine building restore_command to src/common/

  5. Integrate recovery.conf into postgresql.conf

Hi,

On 2018-11-07 12:58:11 +0300, Alexey Kondratov wrote:
> On 30.10.2018 06:01, Michael Paquier wrote:
> > - Reusing the GUC parser is something I would avoid as well.  Not worth
> > the complexity.
> 
> Yes, I don't like it either. I will try to make guc-file.l frontend safe.

It sounds like a seriously bad idea to use a different parser for
pg_rewind.  Why don't you just use postgres for it? As in
/path/to/postgres -D /path/to/datadir/ -C shared_buffers
?