Re: recovery modules

On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 08:17:46PM -0800, Nathan Bossart wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 05:55:42PM -0800, Andres Freund wrote:
>> On 2023-01-27 16:59:10 -0800, Nathan Bossart wrote:
>>> I think it would be weird for the archive module and
>>> recovery module interfaces to look so different, but if that's okay, I can
>>> change it.
>> 
>> I'm a bit sad about the archive module case - I wonder if we should change it
>> now, there can't be many users of it out there. And I think it's more likely
>> that we'll eventually want multiple archiving scripts to run concurrently -
>> which will be quite hard with the current interface (no private state).
> 
> I'm open to that.  IIUC it wouldn't require too many changes to existing
> archive modules, and if it gets us closer to batching or parallelism, it's
> probably worth doing sooner than later.

Here is a work-in-progress patch set for adjusting the archive modules
interface.  Is this roughly what you had in mind?

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