Re: .ready and .done files considered harmful

At Tue, 4 May 2021 10:07:51 -0400, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote in 
> On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 12:27 AM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> > On 2021-05-03 16:49:16 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> > > But perhaps we could work around this by allowing pgarch.c to access
> > > shared memory, in which case it could examine the current timeline
> > > whenever it wants, and probably also whatever LSNs it needs to know
> > > what's safe to archive.
> >
> > FWIW, the shared memory stats patch implies doing that, since the
> > archiver reports stats.
> 
> Are you planning to commit that for v15? If so, will it be early in
> the cycle, do you think?

FWIW It's already done for v14 individually.

Author: Fujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org>
Date:   Mon Mar 15 13:13:14 2021 +0900

    Make archiver process an auxiliary process.

regards.

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Kyotaro Horiguchi
NTT Open Source Software Center