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Re: remove more archiving overhead

Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>

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From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
To: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Cc: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>, Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>, robertmhaas@gmail.com, masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2022-08-02T05:02:19Z
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On Sat, Jul 30, 2022 at 11:51:56PM -0700, Noah Misch wrote:
> Inviting the administrator to resolve things is more dangerous than just
> returning true.  I recommend making this text more opinionated and simpler:
> libraries must return true.  Alternately, if some library has found a good
> reason to return false, this paragraph could give the reason.  I don't know of
> such a reason, though.

Your suggestion seems reasonable to me.  I've attached a small patch.

-- 
Nathan Bossart
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Commits

  1. Be more prescriptive in new doc about re-archiving of same WAL file.

  2. doc: Add note about re-archiving of same WAL files in docs.

  3. Reduce overhead of renaming archive status files.