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

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Alexey Kondratov <a.kondratov@postgrespro.ru>, Alexander Korotkov <a.korotkov@postgrespro.ru>, Liudmila Mantrova <l.mantrova@postgrespro.ru>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>, David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>, vladimirlesk@yandex-team.ru, dsarafan@yandex-team.ru
Date: 2020-03-06T08:22:16Z
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

On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 11:09:06PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Hmm, doesn't the CF bot already validate the MSVC build?
> 
> Splitting in two seems all right, but I think one commit that introduces
> dead code is not great.  It may make more sense to have one commit for
> common/archive.c, and a second commit that does fe_archive plus
> pg_rewind changes ...  If that doesn't work for whatever reason, then
> doing a single commit may be preferrable.

Thanks for the suggestion.  Avoiding dead code makes sense as well
here.  I'll think about this stuff a bit more first.
--
Michael