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Re: pg_stop_backup does not complete

Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>

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From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>
To: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-02-24T18:40:25Z
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Josh Berkus wrote:
> And, while it makes sense for smart shutdown to wait for
> pg_stop_backup(), it does not make sense for fast shutdown to wait.

Hang on, fast shutdown does *not* wait for backup to finish.

> Aside from that, the main issue is not having shutdown wait for
> pg_stop_backup; it's pg_stop_backup never completing.  An issue, I'll
> note, you're ignoring.

Ahh, that's a detail I missed too.

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